January 2, 2025

Debris is left along Bourbon Street after a pickup truck was driven into a large crowd in the French Quarter of New Orleans Jan. 1, 2025. A driver wrought carnage on New Orleans' famed French Quarter early on New Year's Day, ramming a pickup truck into a crowd and killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens before being shot to death by police, authorities said.

NOLA archbishop: ‘God always gives us hope, even in the midst of tragic situations’

Inside the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis King of France for the celebration of the 11 a.m. Mass on Jan. 1 — the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God — Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond and 600 worshipers struggled to make sense of the death and carnage perpetrated by a man who drove a pickup truck into a dense crowd of early-morning New Year’s revelers just five blocks away on Bourbon Street.

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On Gratitude

IF you have a bed to sleep in at night, food in your pantry, and one good friend, you are wealthy beyond measure.
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