Hurricane Irma Archives

North Miami parish serves up a post-hurricane luxury: A hot meal

Before Hurricane Irma arrived,Father Fritz Bellonce got ready: He bought 200 pounds of rice, lots of beans, pork, chicken, turkey and cooking ingredients — dishes that are popular in the predominantly Haitian-American community of Holy Family parish in North Miami.

Pope asks new bishops from Florida, Texas about hurricanes’ aftermath

Bishop William A. Wack of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, and Bishop Robert M. Coerver of Lubbock, Texas, went up to shake the hand of Pope Francis on Thursday, and as soon as he heard where they were from, the pope asked about Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma and the people in Texas and Florida.

Chainsaw-wielding nun just ‘wanted to help out’ after Hurricane Irma

Sister Margaret Ann, principal of Miami’s Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll High School, saw chainsaws sitting in a school closet, and, after Hurricane Irma left a path of destruction through the city, thought “they didn’t belong there. They needed to be used.”

Florida Church official says normal life at standstill after Irma
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- September 14, 2017
Peter Routsis-Arroyo, the CEO of Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Venice in Florida, says the entire area is more or less come crawling to a halt in the wake of the destruction unleashed by Hurricane Irma. Standing water in many communities of Southwest Florida will need to recede before Knights of Columbus emergency deliveries and disaster response programming can get underway, said Routsis-Arroyo, himself a Knight.
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Bishops pray for ‘safety, care’ of all hit hard by two massive hurricanes
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- September 12, 2017
The U.S. bishops’ Executive Committee issued a statement saying, “At this time of initial recovery, we mourn the loss of life, homes and other property, and the harm to the natural environment, and we pray for all those affected and in need of assistance” in the wake of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma.
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In Florida shelter, exhausted people wait out Hurricane Irma
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- September 11, 2017
As Hurricane Irma continues to make its way up Florida, it’s losing strength but still generating winds of over 100 mph. Some 3.3 million people in Florida are without power, and as the center nears Tampa, people in one shelter hastily put together in a local high school are finding their own individual ways to ride out the storm.
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