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Diocesan officials and employees met soon after Hurricane Ida made landfall to begin discussing a plan to respond to one of the worst hurricanes to directly impact the diocese since Hurricane Betsy in 1965.

Lenny Ray says when they saw the island for the first time after Hurricane Ida, it looked like someone had set off a bomb there.

Supplies and hot cooked meals were given away almost everyday in Chauvin for weeks after the storm.

Cut Off resident Sulina Hebert says she was not at all prepared for the sight that greeted her when she returned to her home after the storm.

After Hurricane Ida compromised the roofs of four major buildings on Vandebilt's campus, the two diocesan high schools came together in ways they could not have imagined.

St. Ann parishioners are used to serving and not being served, says Father Cody Chatagnier.

All 11 Catholic schools received some type of damage from Hurricane Ida.

Hurricane Ida unleashes its fury on Houma-Thibodaux

The Lord wants to comfort us in this time difficult time in our diocese.

Very Rev. Vicente DeLa Cruz, V.F., reflects on the difficult days following Hurricane Ida.

A bayou community finds faith and perseverance amid rubble and destruction

Father Joshua Rodrigue named new rector of Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans

Hurricane Ida devastates the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux