Sixteen hundred years is a considerable length of time, even in the history of mankind, and it may seem like a very reactionary and ultra-conservative state of mind to refer to an event so distant ...

Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine and the fathers of the Council of Nicaea of 325 with the Greek text of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 in its liturgical form. Artist unknown.

But the bishop with his people are all gathered together around Christ. The motto on Leo’s coat of arms gives another quote from Augustine: In illo uno unum (“In the One, we are one”).

In 2007, he was accepted as a Seminarian for the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux and entered Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans where he graduated with a Master of Divinity. He was ordained a deacon on ...