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‘I feel at home’ Many who moved to help New Orleans recover decided to stay and set up roots Kiim Frusciante, left, a 2005 grraduate of Tulane University, reeturned to New Orleans in the yeears following Katrina and foocused on early childhood edducation. STTAFF PHOTOS By SOPHIA GERMER
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Parishes, charities to pay $60M in church bankruptcy
Many local parishes are already struggling financially BY STEPHANIE RIEGEL | Staff writer In 2023, Archbishop Gregory Aymond told New Orleans’ 500,000 Roman Catholics in a letter that they would eventually be asked to contribute to a settlement in the archdiocese’s long-running bankruptcy case. Now, that number — and what it would mean to the church’s parishes and charitable organizations — is coming into greater focus. Court documents filed last week show that the archdiocese’s 104 parishes and 19 of its charitable organizations will be required to pay $60 million toward a financial Aymond settlement that will eventually total around $180 million. That does not include $45 million or so from the anticipated sale of Christopher Homes, a portfolio of elderly senior housing. The settlement funds, to be placed in a trust, would benefit hundreds of survivors of clergy sex abuse and be distributed over several years, provided the plan is approved by two-thirds of abuse survivors and confirmed by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Meredith Grabill.
ä See BANKRUPTCY, page 8A
Trump’s influence looms over Senate race
Katy Darrith, above with her family in the Bywater neighborhood, volunteered with Habitat for Humanity in the months following Hurricane Katrina. Barbershop owner Joel Munguia, right, arrived in New Orleans via Honduras in October 2005 and worked at the only Latino barbershop in the area.
Cassidy and his challengers seek president’s backing
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BY JENNA ROSS | Staff writer Each step of the two-block walk Habitat for Humanity in the months from the Darrith family shotgun to following the storm. And that’s what the neighborhood park in Bywater she expected to do — help out for a is well-worn. Looping the harness few weeks. around the dog, scrambling down But New Orleans entranced her. the front steps, scoping out the little Even with the National Guard pasidewalk library along the way. trolling the streets and many busiWaving to the neighbors, too. nesses shuttered, the “How’s it going?” Katy city felt vibrant, differDarrith called to the children KATRINA ent than any place she’d exjoining her own two kids on perienced. She tried going the monkey bars. Her husback to Texas for a semester but was compelled to return. band, Robert, ambled over to Now, 20 years later, the their dads, giving fist bumps. 43-year-old is among a difTwo decades ago, living in YEARS the Dallas-Fort Worth area, ficult-to-count population Darrith would never have of residents who flocked to expected to be a regular New Orleans to help, teach and at a New Orleans playground. But rebuild, and then stayed. They are shocking television footage after newcomers no longer. Hurricane Katrina and a converKatrina led to two waves of new sation with a friend inspired the residents, said Richard Campanella, fledgling teacher to volunteer with an author, geographer and associate
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dean with the Tulane School of Architecture. Those in the first wave “were deeply moved by the catastrophe and that it was happening within their own country.” They were premarriage, pre-family. “They were idealistic, progressive, excited,” Campanella said. The second wave arrived in 2010 and 2011, when Forbes and other national media outlets highlighted New Orleans as a hot spot for the creative class. Gentrification became a buzzword. The Bywater became a battleground. Those who have remained are respectful, even reverent, of the New Orleanians who grew up here, whose schools and homes and families were devastated by Katrina.
ä See TRANSPLANTS, page 4A
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U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy and his three Republican challengers will begin drawing sharp distinctions among themselves at some point in the upcoming Senate primary. But in the meantime, they are all competing for the endorsement of President Donald Trump. No one can say for certain whether Trump will favor one candidate or when he might do so. But everyone agrees that any endorsement from him will pack a punch. This has prompted the four Republican candidates to tout their MAGA credentials at every opportunity. State Treasurer John Fleming said he worked in the White House during Donald Trump’s first term as president, 10 steps from the Oval Office. Public Service Commissioner Eric Skrmetta said he chaired each of the Trump campaigns in Louisiana. State Sen. Blake Miguez styles himself as an America First conservative who will be a reliable Trump ally.
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