By Barbara Chenevert
Staff Writer
If Pamela Folse is a success as a writer and church minster, she says it’s because she never forgot where she came from.
“This is where I grew up. These are the people who educated me, who shared their lives with me, who I am with in times of joy and sadness. This is where I am and this is who I am,” the Vacherie native said.
Since 2005, Folse has been the pastoral associate at Our Lady of Peace Church in Vacherie, where she ministers to a parish of 1,300 families. But her love affair with the people of the area began many years before.
Folse has spent her life chronicling the lives of the people of the Vacherie area, through her writings in local newspapers, church bulletins, children’s books and now even a Cajun play.
“I love the local history. I draw
By Barbara Chenevert
If Pamela Folse is a success as a writer and church minster, she says it’s because she never forgot where she came from.
Several Catholic churches in the diocese have pooled their resources for the Habitat for Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge Catholic Coalition Build, which is being led by Francis Weimer of St. George Church in Baton Rouge. Weimer, right,
Troy Romero, left, vice president for operations for McIlheny Tabasco, leads diocesan priests, Fathers Jason Palermo, Howard Adkins, Todd Lloyd, Paul Gros, Randy Cuevas, Mark Beard and Michael Alello, on a tour of the Avery Island processing
The Wake Up! Baton Rouge morning show on WPYR Catholic Community Radio was broadcast from Father Engles’ Hall on the St. Jean Vianney campus April 12. Middle school religion teacher Josie Duke talked about her annual religion
Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans, grand prior of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Southeast Lieutenancy, invested four people from the Diocese of Baton Rouge into the order during Mass at Holy Spirit Church in Atlanta April
Amie Martinez, an eighth-grade-student at St. Thomas More School, is the winner of this year’s Serra Club of Baton Rouge essay contest. She received a check and a plaque at the May 5 meeting of the
The history of St. Michael Church in Convent came alive at a bicentennial celebration held on the church grounds on May 5. Deidre Detillier, left, Ken Guidry and Brenda Mitchell portray characters who played a
St. Thomas More Catholic School students honored the Blessed Virgin Mary during a May Crowning ceremony May 1. Students brought live flowers that they carried in procession and placed around the statue of Mary. Eighth-grader Savannah Esteve crowned the Blessed Mother statue escorted by fellow classmate Blair
American Catholics must resist unjust laws “as a duty of citizenship and an obligation of faith,” a committee
Kevin and Amanda Juneau were given less than 1 percent chance that their twin baby girls would live. Born at
By Laura Deavers
As more than 3,500 Louisianans marched from the
This Advent Wreath, with the first candle lit to mark the first week of Advent, is in the
“Magnificent!” The one word
