Monthly Archives: August 2010

New Orleans’ social infrastructure is still today, hundreds of years on, much the same French Colony it was – most of our vital social support systems run by the orders.  The Daughters of Charity created “Charity Hospital”… a mammoth structure … Continue reading →

Remembrance: Katrina Five Years Ago Today Then: I arrived in New Orleans enroute form London, back home to Wellington in New Zealand, on August 25th.  New Orleans then was where I was from, my roots and a place I always … Continue reading →

My friend, Steve Addison, CRM Australia, and church [multiplication] movements expert, blogged today about the population of the world approaching 7 Billion people in the very near future.  He went on to comment on the doubling of the population of … Continue reading →

Here in New Orleans, the orders are central to society.  Our Benedictine Abbey, on the Northshore, in the suburbs, hidden in a wood, is St. Joseph’s Benedictine Abbey.  They are our friends.  We retreat there and they have been huge … Continue reading →