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News Stories from Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
- Pope offers concern for Katrina's victims, prayers for relief workers
VATICAN CITY (CNS, Aug. 31, 2005) -- Pope Benedict XVI expressed his spiritual closeness and concern for all those affected by Hurricane Katrina in the United States, and he offered special prayers for those engaged in relief efforts.
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- Louisianans face long recovery from Katrina, New Orleans flooding
WASHINGTON (CNS, Sept. 1, 2005) -- Many Catholic churches and schools across Louisiana pitched in to provide meals, shelter and services for Gulf Coast refugees from Hurricane Katrina and from the massive flooding of New Orleans that followed -- one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit the United States.
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- Most bishops in hurricane's path accounted for
WASHINGTON (CNS, Sept. 1, 2005) -- Efforts by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Washington headquarters to get through to bishops whose dioceses were in the path of Hurricane Katrina generally met with success in the initial days after the hurricane, as power and telephone outages left bishops and laity alike incommunicado.
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- Priest witnesses devastation in drive north from Mississippi coast
WASHINGTON (CNS, Sept. 1, 2005) -- Divine Word Father Brendan Murphy thought he was just going to celebrate weekend Masses in Lizana, Miss., and then head back to his order's monastery in nearby Bay St. Louis.
That was not to be.
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