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Welcome to Acadiana, the heart of Cajun country and home of the tastiest food, best dancers and liveliest music in America. In an increasingly homogenized musical nation, the area around Lafayette, Louisiana, a town of 106,000 located 120 miles west of New Orleans, remains blessedly distinctive. Here the Cajun-Zydeco tradition has not just survived but flourished, as 125,000 people were reminded last week at the Festival International de Louisiane, an annual celebration of the music of the Francophone world...
...Gauthe affair, investigated by Catholic Journalist Jason Berry in the Times of Acadiana of Lafayette, La., is one of 15 deeply painful and perplexing cases that have surfaced during the past month in which priests have been charged with pedophilia. The weekly National Catholic Reporter, after months of research by three reporters, unearthed nine of these incidents in seven states during the past seven years...
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