Loading...
Loading...
Click here if you don’t see subscription options
The EditorsAugust 27, 2015

To mark the 10 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devestation, we have compiled a survey of our coverage over the last decade, from weeks after the deadly hurricane up to present day. 

10 Years Later: A Discussion with New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu

PODCAST: Mayor Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans looks back at the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina and the city's revival in the 10 years since.

New Orleans Ten Years after Katrina: An Interview with Fred Kammer, S.J.

 

Father Kammer is a Jesuit lawyer who directs the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans. A New Orleans native, he was the Jesuit provincial superior in that city when Hurricane Katrina struck.

In Katrina's Wake

The editors reflected on the immediate aftermath of Katrina, both praising the admirable actions taken by the American people but strongly criticizing the lack of government action to save lives. 

Catholic New Orleans

Before becoming America's editor in chief, Matt Malone, S.J. reported on the Catholic Church's response to the disaster one year after the storm. 

The Grace of Suffering

Sean Salai, S.J. chronicled the service trip of a Jesuit high school to help rebuild New Orleans and the grace that emerged from it. 

Comments are automatically closed two weeks after an article's initial publication. See our comments policy for more.

The latest from america

In a time of increasing disaffiliation from and disillusionment with the institutional church, a new theological perspective on the church is needed—one that places Jesus’ own teaching at the center.
Roger Haight, S.J.June 20, 2025
This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley are thrilled to speak with their friend and colleague Father James Martin about his new podcast, “The Spiritual Life with Fr. James Martin, S.J.”
JesuiticalJune 20, 2025
Pope Leo XIV is seen in a video interview with RAI Uno on June 19 at Vatican Radio’s transmission center at Santa Maria di Galeria outside of Rome, where he had made an impromptu visit. (CNS photo/screengrab from RAI Uno video)
Pope Leo XIV renewed his “appeal for peace” in an interview after a surprise visit to the Vatican Radio Center.
Gerard O’ConnellJune 20, 2025
There are so many things you can enjoy when you are poor—and some, it seems, that are easier to enjoy when you’re poor because you cannot lean on the crutches and the shortcuts that litter the path of the rich.
Simcha FisherJune 20, 2025