Met with Fr. Tom Phelan in Orange, Texas who told us about COPS (Citizens Organized for Public Service) in San Antonio, Texas. Fr. Phelan explained elderly citizens in a deteriorating part of San Antonio united to get better sewers, lighting, … Continue reading →
Went to Orange, Texas where we met with Paul and Ruby Mayeux, wonderful couple who are tremendously on fire for God. Several years ago, Paul started the Apostolate Against Pornography (and other public obscenities). He talks in area churches exhorting … Continue reading →
In Lumberton, TX, we heard a talk by Michael Mariquin, a representative for Project Angels of Hope. In rural Bolivia, he works among the poorest people in South America (highest death rate for children in the first five years of … Continue reading →
We drove further south to Lufkin, Texas where Diboll High School football coach Jimmy Davis attends a Bible study every Thursday morning at Starbuck’s Coffee Shop here. He told me, because of his Christianity, he will never “cuss out or … Continue reading →
We traveled south to Nacogdoches, Texas (the oldest city in Texas). There I met with Sacred Heart Catholic Church youth minister Stephen Watson who told me he was preparing for a “30-hour famine” with the youth at the church. They … Continue reading →
We headed west into Longview, Texas where I interviewed Lori Dohanich, who is a religion teacher at St. Mary’s school here. She told me she teaches a unit to 8th graders about social justice issues, focusing specifically on the era … Continue reading →
We stopped in Marshall, Texas today where I met with Shane Johnson who has established a couple half way houses here for those in drug and alcohol recovery. Called: The Way, it’s a Christian based program that provides in-house meetings … Continue reading →
In Tallulah, Louisiana I met with Darryl Ellerbee, former local caseworker for the Youth Opportunity (YO) Program. A federally funded program, Ellerbee said a $20 million dollar grant was awarded to three parishes (counties) in Louisiana. He said people between … Continue reading →
In Vicksburg, Mississippi we talked with Mathew Emory of London, Ontario, who was here visiting the historic battle site. Mathew said in Canada there is a lot less gun violence because guns, simply, aren’t as much a part of the … Continue reading →
This week I told the Scott County Times in Forest, Mississippi that the Catholic Rural Life Association has come out with a statement calling for a moratorium on big confinement farms for cattle, chicken and so on. The farm conditions … Continue reading →