News and Press

By Pamela Seal
Diocese of Lake Charles

LAKE CHARLES — Rev. Jeffrey Starkovich, Class of 2003, will take a trip down memory lane when he serves as the Grand Marshal of the 2023 Saint Louis Catholic High School Homecoming Parade on Wednesday, September 27. He will also be celebrating his 20-year class reunion. 

NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPPI — The Very Reverend Edward Richard M.S., V.F., pastor of Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church in Sulphur, La., was invested with the Knight Commander Cross of the Order of the Fleur De Lis on Saturday, August 26, 2023. Additionally, Father Richard serves as Dean of the West Deanery for the Diocese of Lake Charles.

By Pamela Seal
Diocese of Lake Charles 

When Sister Miriam MacLean, RSM, was appointed Executive Director of Catholic Charities of Southwest Louisiana in 2018, she chose the motto, “God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish.” (Psalm 9:18) 

She has taken this motto to heart by raising awareness that Catholic Charities exists to serve all five parishes of Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jeff Davis in the Diocese of Lake Charles. 

Bishop Glen John Provost is asking for the faithful in the Diocese to join him in offering prayers of thanksgiving for the rain which began Sunday evening.

The 43rd annual Bishop’s Services Appeal (BSA), a fundraising campaign to aid in the operation of these various ministries and programs, kicked off the weekend of September 16-17 in church parishes throughout the Diocese.

Bishop Provost blesses refurbished church, parish hall in Ragley

By Pamela Seal 
Diocese of Lake Charles

RAGLEY — On August 4, 1903, Pope Pius X devoted his papacy to Instaurare Omnia in Christo, “Restore all things in Christ.” That motto was on full display 120 years later at Saint Pius X Catholic Church in the Diocese of Lake Charles as Bishop Glen John Provost blessed the newly refurbished church and parish hall on August 20, 2023.

By Pamela Seal 
Diocese of Lake Charles 

LAKE CHARLES — Dr. Brant Pitre, Distinguished Research Professor of Scripture at The Augustine Institute, told nearly 470 people — many of them catechists — that he is elated when his kids ask for the keys to his car so they can go to the chapel for Eucharistic Adoration. 

In a memo addressed to The Clergy of the Diocese of Lake Charles on Monday, August, 21, 2023, Bishop Glen John Provost is requesting prayers and Masses specifically for rain. His Excellency also seeks the intercession of our Blessed Mother for life-giving water, while she continues to protect us from storms and destructive weather.

By Pamela Seal 
Diocese of Lake Charles 

LAKE CHARLES — Surrounded by clergy and staff of the Diocese of Lake Charles, Bishop Glen John Provost dedicated the new Chancery to Our Lady of Lourdes at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, September 8, 2023. The dedication and blessing on the corner of Ryan and Clarence streets coincided with the Feast of the Nativity of Blessed Virgin Mary.