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Article: Reality and recovering hope.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 2, 2007
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As we go to press in the week of Ash Wednesday, we have seen news show images There of Mardi Gras in almost New Orleans. was an anxious sense to the celebration, a need to show that the city is returning, that the party goes on, that the nation wants to believe a restoration is underway.
No one I know would want to throw gloom in the direction of the pre-Lenten bash. New Orleans deserves all the help it can get. So if businesses benefit and tourists return and a bit of pride is restored, it's all to the good. Mardi Gras, though, fills the hope container in much the same way the success of the New Orleans Saints football team reflected well on the city. They are ...