This week’s edition is up and includes a request from a New Orleans priest:

In the meantime, Nalty is working with the Willwoods Community, an affordable housing operation sponsored by the New Orleans archdiocese that owns 11 buildings and some 1,700 apartments for low-income people. Their first aim is to restore a property in one of the least affected areas so that it can temporarily house workers, who will then fan out and try to make the other structures habitable as quickly as possible.

"I’m not really good at asking for help, but here it is,"

Nalty writes in a Sept. 7 e-mail.

"Lots of people are donating to different relief efforts or the Red Cross, and that’s great. I’m just asking for help for something with which I’m involved. I’m not asking help for something that would be a luxury, but what is a necessity: housing so that refugees can return home."

The Willwoods Web site is down due to power outages, but people wishing to help can visit the site of the New Orleans TV station, WLAE, which has a special button for Willwoods: www.pbs.org/wlae/

Also, reports on Orthodoxy-Roman Catholic ecumenical efforts and views, a good story from a cab driver in Assisi, and a teaser on the status of the cause for Archbishop Romero…