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By Lora Lavigne, KLF - Father Michael Champagne described the importance of celebrating time... "Obviously we want to manifest our faith. We don't want to just live our lives privately. Faith is what forms culture and here in Acadiana our great culture is so impacted by the Catholic Faith. So, by having processions as we're doing tomorrow we're going to be able to manifest the Catholic faith and thank God for him being with us all these years," said Father Champagne.

By Patrick Coffin, Catholic Stand - I keep having the same exchange with my seriously Catholic friends whenever Pope Francis comes up in conversation. It goes something like this: we were enthused about the initial days of the election (he was saying things about evangelization that needed saying, he encouraged us to get out of “mindset ruts” and bring the gospel to the peripheries since the periphery dwellers aren’t knocking on the church door) and then….something happened to the enthusiasm.

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - St. John Paul II had the penchant, not really surprising in someone of great holiness and intellectual stature, of articulating the foundations for matters that actually came before him in time… In fact, all of the creative power of John Paul II’s teaching seems to have been the fruit of his deliberate intention, reflected in the name he took, of making himself a servant of his predecessors and of the tradition. A wise steward in the Kingdom of God will inevitably bring forth something new if he aims above all to illumine the old...