Comments on: Southern Catholic Chicks http://southerncatholicchicks.com/2009/06/22/hello-world/ How Sweet it is to be Southern and Catholic Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:13:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: 2scc http://southerncatholicchicks.com/2009/06/22/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-13 2scc Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:43:45 +0000 #comment-13 Paul- Thanks so much for this information. Although we both have been to New Orleans several times, we have not made a visit since we were confirmed in the Church. Can't wait to get there and explore the rich Catholic heritage. We appreciate your comment! Chicks A and B Paul- Thanks so much for this information. Although we both have been to New Orleans several times, we have not made a visit since we were confirmed in the Church. Can’t wait to get there and explore the rich Catholic heritage. We appreciate your comment!
Chicks A and B

]]> By: Paul Bergeron http://southerncatholicchicks.com/2009/06/22/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Paul Bergeron Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:40:12 +0000 #comment-10 I was born and reared as a Catholic in Catholic south Louisiana. You will find the culture here somewhat different from the culture you were raised in, and the Northern ethnic Catholic culture that is taken for the "official" Catholic culture of America. In fact, the Catholic culture in south Louisiana is much stronger than that in the other Catholic sections of the South, in particular Maryland. Louisiana has had a pro-life record in its laws since the days of eugenics in the 1930's. Although we have our share of Protestants in north Louisiana and the Florida parishes (equivalents of counties, they are the parts of the former Republic of West Florida that extend from the Pearl River to the Mississippi River), including the Jimmy Swaggart types, I have never felt like an outsider because there were just too many of us! I am a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and I find the Protestant members to warm up to the members from Louisiana--they remember General Beauregard, General Hardee, and Admiral Semmes, to name a few. I invite you to visit New Orleans and in particular attend the traditional mass at St. Peters on Camp Street on Sunday at 9:30 AM; make a weekend of it and see Confederate Memorial Hall the preceding Saturday, also on Camp Street (929 Camp Street) near the D-Day Museum. There you will see a crown of thorns given by Blessed Pope Pius IX to President Jefferson Davis, the President's scapular and rosary (but he never converted), and a stain glass window image of Father Abram Joseph Ryan, the Poet Laureate of the Confederacy. While you're in New Orleans, please visit the original Ursuline convent in the French Quarter, where the Ursuline nuns achieved a number of "firsts" and "bests" in the United States. You should also tour the land settled by the Acadians, from the Mississippi River to the Sabine River, no further north than Alexandria Louisiana and swing by the shrine of Charlene Richard in Richard Louisiana, who, along with Mother Henriette Delille, is a native Louisiana candidate for canonization. I was born and reared as a Catholic in Catholic south Louisiana. You will find the culture here somewhat different from the culture you were raised in, and the Northern ethnic Catholic culture that is taken for the “official” Catholic culture of America. In fact, the Catholic culture in south Louisiana is much stronger than that in the other Catholic sections of the South, in particular Maryland. Louisiana has had a pro-life record in its laws since the days of eugenics in the 1930’s. Although we have our share of Protestants in north Louisiana and the Florida parishes (equivalents of counties, they are the parts of the former Republic of West Florida that extend from the Pearl River to the Mississippi River), including the Jimmy Swaggart types, I have never felt like an outsider because there were just too many of us! I am a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and I find the Protestant members to warm up to the members from Louisiana–they remember General Beauregard, General Hardee, and Admiral Semmes, to name a few. I invite you to visit New Orleans and in particular attend the traditional mass at St. Peters on Camp Street on Sunday at 9:30 AM; make a weekend of it and see Confederate Memorial Hall the preceding Saturday, also on Camp Street (929 Camp Street) near the D-Day Museum. There you will see a crown of thorns given by Blessed Pope Pius IX to President Jefferson Davis, the President’s scapular and rosary (but he never converted), and a stain glass window image of Father Abram Joseph Ryan, the Poet Laureate of the Confederacy. While you’re in New Orleans, please visit the original Ursuline convent in the French Quarter, where the Ursuline nuns achieved a number of “firsts” and “bests” in the United States. You should also tour the land settled by the Acadians, from the Mississippi River to the Sabine River, no further north than Alexandria Louisiana and swing by the shrine of Charlene Richard in Richard Louisiana, who, along with Mother Henriette Delille, is a native Louisiana candidate for canonization.

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