News and Press

LAKE CHARLES — Immaculate Conception Cathedral School and the Office of Catholic Schools are pleased to announce the selection of Mrs. Jacqueline Hebert as the 2024-2025 Principal.

By Pamela Seal 
Diocese of Lake Charles 

The Hispanic Ministry in the Diocese of Lake Charles has expanded to the West Deanery at St. Joseph Catholic Church in DeRidder. The first monthly Sunday Spanish Mass was celebrated by Rev. Wayne LeBleu on July 28, 2024, making history as St. Joseph Parish received a “new life” in the Diocese.

Deacon Maurice Serice, a native of Sulphur, LA, passed away on August 2, 2024, at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas at the age of 87. He was born October 16, 1936, to George and Lena DiGiglia Serice.

By Pamela Seal 
Diocese of Lake Charles 

The Hispanic Ministry in the Diocese of Lake Charles has expanded to the West Deanery at St. Joseph Catholic Church in DeRidder. 

Since December 1996, St. Henry Catholic Church in Lake Charles was, for the most part, the only Parish to have an active Hispanic community. It will now serve as an “older brother” to the Hispanic community born at St. Joseph on April 28, 2024.

August 4, 2024
Feast of St. John Vianney

A Request for Acts of Reparation
to the Catholics of the Diocese of Lake Charles
from Bishop Glen John Provost

July 13, 2024

Deacon Leo Anthony Hebert, 84, passed away peacefully in his residence of Ragley on July 25, 2024, surrounded by his loving family. Leo was born September 7, 1939, to Vina Hebert and Norman Charles Hebert, but was raised by his mother and stepfather, Crankford Ortego.

LAKE CHARLES – Based on results of the 2024 on-site audit of the Diocese of Lake Charles, the Diocese has been found compliant with all audited Articles within the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People for the audit period of October 1, 2021, through March 31, 2024.

By Pamela Seal 
Diocese of Lake Charles 

LAKE CHARLES — The 2024 Bishop’s Invitational Wiffle Ball Classic stretched into an extra inning on Saturday, August 3, with Team Seminarians holding on to their championship title. They claimed an 11-10 nail-biting victory over Team Priests as Luka Hagen, a new seminarian to the team, crossed home plate in the Immaculate Conception Cathedral School gymnasium to break the tie game.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated for Rev. Michael J. Barras, 76, on Friday, July 12, at 2 p.m. from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in downtown Lake Charles at the corner of Bilbo and Kirby streets.  The Most Reverend Glen John Provost, Bishop of Lake Charles,will be the Main Celebrant with Reverend Whitney Miller giving the Homily. Father Barras, a retired priest of the Diocese of Lake Charles, died on Sunday, July 7.