Vicent Pierre

Vincent Pierre – Creole Public Servant

Vincent Pierre is a Louisiana elected official who is extremely proud of his Creole heritage. He was born in the Lafayette Charity Hospital in 1964 and raised in a small, friendly neighbourhood in the Scott/Car...
vitamins

Does Your Body Need Vitamin Supplements?

February 5, 2018 When I was on the mend from two cracked ribs, etc., the doctor prescribed, among other pills, a once- a-week-50,000-unit pill for vitamin D. That set me to wondering about the implications or ...
robbery

We Must Not Be Lulled Into La-La Land

May 20, 2018  Society of the Divine Word Southern Province U.S.A. Provincial Superior, Father Paul Kahan, sent an urgent email to all of us at 8:20 in the morning of May 7, 2018. Held at gunpoint was the t...
Paradise

What is your piece of paradise here?

May 28, 2018 Due to ministry, rarely have I had an opportunity to view the Kentucky Derby Run For The Roses, aka “The most exciting two minutes in sports.” One might quibble over one or the other heavyweight b...

A Greiving Mother’s Mother’s Day

May 13, 2018 It was a month of Sundays since A Greiving Mother's Mother’s Day I had received a call from Hannah Augillard Benjamin, but the approach of Mother’s Day 2018 changed that abruptly. Dreary and painf...

Have Opioids Entered Your Life?

January 15, 2018 The pain medicine Tramadol was prescribed for me recently, to be taken every six hours or according to my need, to suppress the pain attendant to two ribs cracked when I stumbled on a marble t...

We Waste Untold Amounts Of Spiritual Gems

January 8, 2018 The outsize physical world in which we live is a paradise overflowing with myriads of spectacular fauna and flora stunning in their variety, purpose and utility to us. About 200,000 years ago, ...

Every Column/Sermon/Task Is A Meditation

January 29, 2018  Though the following thoughts seem only clerical in nature, they pertain to every human being. When taken into ourselves and absorbed as part of us, a column, sermon, task and all human ...

The Many Traditions of Mardi Gras in Louisiana

The Many Traditions of Mardi Gras in Louisiana - Each year one of the most rambunctious events to take place in the United States is the celebration of Mardi Gras New Orleans is often viewed as the home of Mar...
D. Joan Rhodes, 2018

The Ark of Life through the Eyes of D. Joan Rhodes

D. Joan Rhodes has pushed her life and career beyond all expectations for a black woman in America. With a successful family business under her belt, Joan continues to stride forward. After a career spanning de...