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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 – Mrs. Nicole Monk has been selected as the administrative assistant to Bishop Glen John Provost, Bishop of Lake Charles, effective July 1, 2015, according to Monsignor Daniel A. Torres, Vicar General.

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.

WASHINGTON — Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), welcomed the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on ecology, Laudato Si’, June 18.

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.

 


LAKE CHARLES – A chance good deed for a friend turned into almost three decades of service to the Diocese of Lake Charles for Sandra Jones, who worked for each of the three bishops of this local church.