A few days before Peter Simon’s solo set at last year’s Baton Rouge Blues Festival, he invited Raudol Palacios, a classically trained cellist, to sit in with him. On stage at the Blues Fest, Simon, ...

Forty bishops among 2,000 attendees laid their hands on the Rev. Simon Peter Engurait as he was ordained as the sixth Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux. Engurait was ordained by Archbishop Gregory Aymond at ...

What's in a name? Fate? It's the 1980s, and young Simon Peter Kamomoe is dressed in improvised priestly garb - a bedcover as the robe, a stick for the staff and a modified carton for the hat. He is ...

In a world where just about everyone may worry they'll soon be replaced by smart machines, a cowboy poet named Ed has seemed to find enduring work in a small, dying town in the American Southwest. He ...

REINS AS THE LEADER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, HE MADE A BIG DECISION RIGHT HERE AT HOME. THE POPE JUST NAMED THE NEXT BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE OF HOUMA THIBODAUX. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE NEWS BECAME OFFICIAL ...

A statue of St. Peter in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican can be seen in this high-resolution photograph taken in 2023 by Iconem, a French startup specializing in the digitization of important ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed the Rev. Simon Peter Engurait as the new bishop of Houma-Thibodaux. Ugandan-born Rev. Engurait was nominated for the Lumen Christi Award in 2022 for his disaster relief work ...

Find today’s readings here. I love Simon Peter. The New Testament makes it clear that he is the leader of the early church. But it is also clear that he made many mistakes. The calling of Simon Peter ...

Sunday, Feb. 9, is the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Isaiah 6:1-2a, 3-8; Psalm 138:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 7-8; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 or 1 Corinthians 15:3-8, 11; Luke 5:1-11. Today’s Gospel ...

THIBODAUX, La. (WVUE) - Simon Peter Engurait was ordained and installed Friday (Sept. 5) as the sixth bishop of the Catholic church’s Houma-Thibodaux diocese, the diocese announced. As he was ordained ...

Jesus didn’t just forgive St. Peter in John 21:15-17 — he gave him authority. Here’s what that passage says: When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon, son of John, do you ...

Rev. Simon Peter Engurait was ordained as the sixth Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux. Engurait is the first African bishop to be named in the mainland United States. The ordination ceremony blended Ugandan ...