Saint Anthony Catholic Church
Saint Anthony Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 924 Monroe Street in Gretna, LA 70053. It is one of 63 churches in Gretna, and one of 4 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
924 Monroe Street, Gretna, LA, 70053Phone: (504) 368-6161
Saint Anthony Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 578 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Louisiana — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Saint Anthony Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 6 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 48.1%
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Food Insecurity: 34.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.1%
- Diabetes: 21.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.5%
- Unemployment: 12.5% (2.1–22.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Poverty Rate: 28.1% (10.8–45.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (1.2–30.0%)
- Depression: 25.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Gretna city is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 1,019 residents.
Churches near Saint Anthony Catholic Church
- True Fellowship Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Christian Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hosanna Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Franklin Avenue Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Pauls Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Philadelphia Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Evariste Temple Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- New Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Millennium Community Church — 0.5 mi away
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- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 1.2 mi away
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- Saint Theresa of Avila Catholic Church — 1.5 mi away in New Orleans, LA
- Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church — 1.5 mi away in New Orleans, LA