I, The Most Reverend Glen John Provost, Bishop of Lake Charles, hereby announce the assignments for the ordinands for the Year Two Thousand and Fifteen for the Diocese of Lake Charles, Louisiana.

On the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of same-sex marriage
  
The ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court is irreconcilable with the natural law and with Divine Revelation.   This decision completely ignores the accumulated wisdom of centuries of inherited human experience regarding marriage.    All of this heritage the Catholic Church has maintained, promoted, and sustained for the benefit of civilization and the continuation of the human race.   This the U. S. Supreme Court has ignored and discarded.       

Some may view this decision as logically proceeding from some sort of enlightened development of contemporary consciousness.  This way of thinking is misguided and incongruous with the will of God.  The judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court will have detrimental consequences for our civilization and thus to the family and in the future to the free exercise of religion in this country.        
 

The Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops (LCCB) has released a statement on Laudato Si’, the Encyclical Letter of His Holiness, Pope Francis published on June 18.

The Abrazando Cristo Mission Program would like to thank all those who purchased a rafftle ticket as well as entered in the Johnnie Thibodeaux Memorial Golf Tournament, according to Monsignor Daniel Torres.

LAKE CHARLES – The six-page insert of the Catholic Calendar, which appears on the third Friday of each month, will change on Friday, July 17, when it returns to two facing pages published, generally, on the first and third Friday in the main sections of the American Press, though there will only be one publication this July.

WESTLAKE -- The 2015 Bishop's Golf Classic will be played on Friday, Oct. 2,  at the National Golf Club of Louisiana, 2801 Louisiana Way.  The four-person scramble tournament will feature only an afternoon round, beginning with a 1 p.m. shotgun start following lunch.