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The archdiocesan review board advised the archdiocese to remove Father McCormack from his parish, and the archdiocese refused to follow the advice.

Bryan Samuels

It is a great new day for the parish of Acadia to begin addressing these concerns, ... … We're not all angels, and they (inmates) need to be treated properly.

David Benoit

I don't want to build in the parish again. I would say 60 percent of the people aren't going back.

Leroy Alfonso

They have not taken the views of the parish into consideration.

Terry Taylor

There's certainly enough to carry out an investigation (from) outside of St. Bernard Parish.

Julie Morris

We have winners from throughout the parish.

Marie Renaud

We are glad parish has stepped forward to claim what is rightfully theirs. I hope they put the money to good use.

Trey Thibodeaux

As a whole, I think he did exactly what the citizens of the parish expected: to take control and take a leadership position in getting us through the disaster.

Tim Coulon

This is the most parity we have had at the parish tournament in several years.

Charles Vidrine

I didn't want people being trapped in Jefferson Parish without these services.

John Young

Our success as a parish community is not due to any single leader, but to the entire staff here and the members of the parish and their involvement.

Mary Foley

We need money and we need help. We're concerned it's going to be widespread, parish-wide, not just Slidell area. It is a much bigger problem than this.

Suzanne Parsons

This is the old St. John's Episcopal Church. It's one of the three that the diocese closed back in the 1970s and combined into the Christ the King parish in Stone Ridge.

Jeanne Bollendorf

Us, along with the parish, will miss him. He's a talented man and a very good pastor.

Pat Mcgee

If a pastor calls and asks for a dispensation - an Irish parish, for example - he'll grant it, rather than do a universal dispensation.

Marc Mutty

We don't know if the cotton has been blown out, but most of the storm probably went to the east of the cotton-growing area from Pointe Coupee (Parish) north through the Delta.

Bob Odom

Very little, if any, of the (settlement) funds come from parish funds.

John Salveson

The ones who are here already are in a state of shock, and no ones knows the loss of life that's taken place in St. Bernard Parish alone.

Tony Hitt

Getting people in homes is real important towards improving the quality of life in the parish.

Tom Morris

I'm going to keep praying, ... My house is in St. Charles Parish, and my house had some leakage and siding damage - nothing major.

Aaron Stecker

We are working with the Lafayette Detective Division because both girls were found in Lafayette Parish.

Laura Balthazar

We are here to foster stronger alliances. We are not in the parish to replace anyone.

Lavonya Malveaux

We don't want to say 'Hey, let's go close Bonita.' when maybe there's another school in the parish that would be a better candidate for consolidation.

Kris Mckoin

Our Sunday masses have increased and we have new enrollment at our masses. I think our parish is going strong with 50 percent of its members back.

Sandra Gordon

I'll be candid. The parish is not in a position to furnish a consultant at this time. That could run from $20,000 to $40,000. Leo Lucchesi will attend meetings and give technical assistance. We'll take it on a case by case basis to see if a consultant is needed.

Toye Taylor

Jefferson Parish as we knew it is gone forever.

Jefferson Parish

We are creating smaller camps at parish level.

Felix Kulayigye

It is really a kindergarten readiness experience. Any child in Lafayette Parish is eligible to attend.

Ouida Forsyth

If you want to try to get your child a Catholic education and you're a member of our parish, it's become extremely difficult.

Rob Richardson

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

Martin Scorsese

The months of October and November were terrific for Jefferson Parish -- on both banks of the river. They were selling record numbers.

Bob Israel

Thank God that the people of the parish take care of their own.

Dina Kreps'

We've done our best to try to reach out to any person who comes forward, to respond to his or her individual needs and also to respond to the parish. There will always be someone who feels we could have done something differently.

Susan Gibbs

Even with advance knowledge and awareness, and active participation in the process, there is no denying the sense of pain or loss in a parish or school community.

Cardinal Maida

I would have asked Muscogee County to send deputies today, ... but a cloud of gas over Orleans Parish prompted them to withdraw some officers from that area and they asked me not to send any more now.

Terry Norris

We've got to come back and talk to the City Council and see if we can get them to help us with this. The numbers aren't there. We won't have enough money to build the school and the parish.

Jim Cutropia

Cleco has 2,000 miles of lines in the parish.

James Hartman

They made us get out of the parish, and I wanted to take my animals (but)they shot my animals right in front of me.

William Miller

You really can't take that particular waste stream out of the affected parish.

Joe Brown and David Brown

Every other parish gets by with one.

Janet Howard

FEMA didn't have any food for those people in Gretna. They didn't give me any food. I didn't have any water. My obligations are to the people of Jefferson Parish.

Harry Lee

It was such an odd situation to have not one, not two, but three -- and all from Avoyelles Parish.

Stacy Langley

It is a dynamic thing, a living thing, that will change as growth changes the parish.

William Jarrell

I'll have to work with the parish council to see if they want to give you some of this.

Toye Taylor

It has taken us longer to get set up in St. Tammany Parish because our manpower is stretched so thin.

Mark Heimann

Catholics are loyal to their parish and their diocese and should follow the advice and teachings of their bishop.

Joseph Mcaleer

At first, our evacuation orders were just for the low-lying areas, but now it's the entire Calcasieu Parish. We've got buses running continuously to get residents out. We're trying to learn from other areas, not to repeat their mistakes.

Cindy Murphy

He feels the parish has come back enough. That was his commitment that he could bring more and more people in as the infrastructure would admit.

Walter Maestri

We are so grateful to the everyone who helped us, in the school and in the parish. We were confident that we could keep this school open.

Tom Olson

The kids get motivated because this is the parish tournament. They think they should be in the top two seeds, no ifs, ands or buts.

Thad Dickey

If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish.

John Keble

They were there in the first 24 to 48 hours, ... Not our request, they just came. They got on a bus and headed up. During 9/11 they were cooking gumbo and feeding us. So, when we got a request for Jefferson Parish, I think that is one of the reasons we came.

Dr. Thomas Graham

As more people become involved in the life of the church, we will experience stronger parish communities.

Jane Marrin

The cleanup will be massive, but the parish and Kenner have done a good job of clearing a lot of these major streets. But I think people are going to have a hard time believing what they see when they get back.

Robert Lambert

Labor movement's parish priest.

George V. Higgins

With the exception of one or two people, all (32) are new people to participate (in government). There is a new excitement and a new momentum for Washington Parish.

Toye Taylor

I want to get more specific data. I want to learn how to grab that information and bring it back to my parish and be able to teach this information to my congregation. We have to bring it to a level that they can understand and to motivate them.

Luis Miranda

Every man, woman, family, parish and diocese will have to decide which way they will go.

Cynthia Brust

As a parish priest you're formed much by the people you serve and live with.

David Reed

We're the single largest private employer (in Orleans Parish), ... What does it say if the single largest employer doesn't get up?

Scott Cowen

People are overwhelmingly saying this is not only a worthwhile project, but as a parish it helps us develop beyond our own boundaries.

Dave Biviano

We are doing everything we can do in Bossier Parish to reach out and touch the needs of the people in the entire state.

Larry Dean

The parish can no longer sustain the gap between tuition and the cost of education with so few students.

Marianna Thompson

And we got calls today, 'We need you ... to go to a place in St. Bernard Parish. It's a hospice, ... and there are 10 dead and there are 10 dying.' But those people were probably alive yesterday or the day before.

Bruce Jones

They are no doubt the three largest employers left in Jefferson Parish.

Mark Peters

A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man who is Himself the meaning of life.

C. Kilmer Myers

When things happen in the core, it has a ripple effect throughout the parish.

Frankie Bertrand

We ought to embrace the people who got in a vehicle and somehow arrived in our community, ... [Let's] let them know that Searcy is different than St. Bernard's Parish.

Michael Lincoln

They pulled the Jefferson Parish phone numbers along with the Jefferson Davis Parish numbers. Once they realized their mistake, they stopped the calls in Jefferson.

Denise Bottcher

If Lafayette Parish wants to attract new businesses and have jobs, it needs to address the facility needs.

Karlin Artigue

In my 45 years in Sabine Parish I've never seen anything like this.

Ken Freeman

I would love for the people in these sites to tell me we are doing too much for them, This parish has a history of taking care of its people.

Emily Campbell

This does not mean the parish is getting into the animal control business. We are not, ... We won't be picking up any animals. The shelter will be for persons who bring their dogs there to WCI.

Zachary Taylor