New Orleans prelate shares 'challenges of exile' with fellow evacuees

Published: 2005-09-23

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a letter to New Orleans Catholics dispersed throughout the country after Hurricane Katrina, Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes said he shared with them "the challenges of exile." "Like the Jews of old, we long for a return to our holy city," said the New Orleans archbishop, who has been based in Baton Rouge, La., since the hurricane and subsequent flooding made much of New Orleans uninhabitable in late August. He said he hoped to "soon be able to celebrate Mass in St. Louis Cathedral" in the city's French Quarter as "a sign of the resurrection of the church in New Orleans." He encouraged New Orleans Catholics to keep up to date on news about the archdiocese and their parish or school through the Web site at www.archdiocese-no.org.

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