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LOUISIANA: Where Demons Flee and Life Begins, by Kevin Wells – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

LOUISIANA: Where Demons Flee and Life Begins, by Kevin Wells

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Photo Fr. Jeff Bayhi. Source: Wellspring

By Kevin Wells, Wellspring, May 15, 2026

Note from Fr. Bayhi: If you feel a desire to fight the evils of human trafficking, remember what Sr. Eugenia Bonetti says: “No one can do everything. And everyone can do something.” To learn more about our work, please visit our website Metanoia-inc.org, and consider beginning to explore the possibility of safe havens in your own vicinity. We will consult and help facilitate in your part of the country. You may contact me directly at mjb93053@hotmail.com

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At the rise of the moon at Metanoia Manor, shadows will move across bedroom walls like processions of ghosts. Screams split the stillness of this hidden corner of Louisiana, and are swallowed whole by the silvery-gray moss hanging like tinsel from ancient live oaks.

Yet this place of terror and nightmares is no House of Usher. It is a sacred place—a humble kingdom of resurrection for the world’s most ruthlessly wounded children. Metanoia Manor is a refuge, a safe place where blood-curdling screams are met with religious sisters who were sent by God to love His most bullied children. ….

“Metanoia is no insane asylum,” said Fr. Jeffrey Bayhi, its founder. “It is a type of hospital of peace, built by God for His hurt angels. It is where girls, at last, learn they are loved for who they are and not for what they do.” …

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