A retired New Orleans priest who walked back a public admission of sexual abuse will spend his remaining years behind bars, after pleading guilty to charges for offenses dating from 1975-1976.

La Pastoral Migratoria de la parroquia de San Juan Evangelista de Columbia hace algo más que proporcionar el apoyo que tanto necesitan los recién llegados a los Estados Unidos. También ayuda a los feligreses anglosajones a acompañar a los inmigrantes hispanohablantes y a sus familias.

An outreach ministry based at St. John the Evangelist in Columbia does more than provide much-needed support to new arrivals to the United States. It also helps Anglo parishioners accompany their Spanish-speaking immigrants and their families.

Splendor and reverence are largely absent from our daily lives, and mostly abandoned by the dominant secular culture that casualizes almost everything.

The small, struggling city where Jesus Christ was born holds a deeper urgency — and a quiet, heartbreaking beauty.