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Karen Baker with some issues of The Porch Light, a magazine mailed to 1,800 homes by Mary, Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Mandeville. (Staff photo by Bob Warren)

Learn how The Porch Light magazine is connecting parishioners at Mary, Queen of Peace Catholic Church through engaging stories and local news.

Baker, the director of operations and stewardship at Mary, Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Mandeville, was chatting with Father Robert Cooper, a priest at the church, at a conference in 2024.

Pope Leo XIV walks prior to his departure for Equatorial Guinea, in Luanda, Angola, Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) ORG XMIT: XTH105

Father Luis Duarte discusses the impacts of federal immigration policies on the congregation at St. Jerome Catholic Church in Kenner.

Parishioners at St. Jerome's Catholic Church in Kenner fear immigration sweeps, and it's often kept them from coming to Mass

of 8 T wo Presbyterians buy an old Methodist church … “I know, right?” Amy Crane said one recent afternoon, and shrugged, realizing it sounds like the opening of a joke. “Yeah, we bought a church.”

The Right Rev. Shannon Rogers Duckworth reflects on her role, touching on topics ranging from politics to the health of the Episcopal Church.

of 4 The Rev. Kurt Young teaches homiletics at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans.

of 4 The Rev. Kurt Young says nothing is off-limits, but treads carefully around hot topics.