VATICAN CITY (CNS) – A Vatican official praised church-run schools as valuable components of modern education, saying they deserve public financial support and must not be muzzled on moral issues. Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, addressing a U.N. meeting in Geneva July 6, said educational systems work best when they include participation by parents and various elements of civil society, including religious organizations.

High Schools : Josephite Father Charles Andrus , Interim President, St. Augustine High School, New Orleans, is pastor of Blessed Sacrament-St. Joan of Arc Parish in New Orleans. The native of Palmetto, La., is the former associate vocations director of the Josephites.

* The French-language LE PROPAGATEUR CATHOLIQUE (1842-1864): The weekly Le Propagateur Catholique was the first Catholic newspaper in Louisiana. It has ties to the era of anti-clericalism in France which began with the French Revolution in 1830.

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¿ Podría darnos  una actualización de la situación de las nuevas oficinas de la Arquidiócesis en el Northshore? ¿Han arrendado un edificio? Lo tenemos. Es en Covington cerca de la U.S. 90 y la I-12 muy cerca a Hood Northlake Chevrolet.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI urged the international community to deliver urgent humanitarian aid to the drought-stricken Horn of Africa, especially Somalia, where tens of thousands have fled drought and famine.

For many young adults, finding a place in the Catholic Church can be a difficult task primarily because of the lack of young adult ministries. Parishes need to reach out and welcome young adults through these ministries, Rachel Longest, archdiocesan coordinator of young adult ministry, said in her presentation, “Young Adults and the Church: What’s the Reality?

This month was my second visit to the office of Nicholls State head football coach Charlie Stubbs. After the first, a year ago, I thought, this guy has no idea what he is getting himself into. Charlie Stubbs had never been a head coach.

The Barn door has been closed. It sits in silence as the final days of summer pass by. Xavier University’s 74-year-old basketball palace is considered by many one of the city’s forgotten treasures that will never take its place among the landmarks in New Orleans’ registry of historic icons.

Festival enlivens spirit OSHKOSH, Wis. (CNS) – A five-day Christian music festival called Lifest drew 85,000 people to Oshkosh for food, fellowship and opportunities for spiritual fitness. The crowd size was an increase of more than 15 percent over last year, according to Lifest’s marketing director, and a Mass celebrated July 10, the final day of the festival, set its own record with 800 worshippers.

Jesuits of the New Orleans Province will honor 22 priests and brothers celebrating milestones of service to the Society of Jesus with a Mass July 31 at 3 p.m. at Immaculate Conception Church, 130 Baronne St. 75 years as a Jesuit Father Jacques L. Weber taught at Strake Jesuit College Preparatory in Houston and was rector at Jesuit High in Shreveport.

More than two dozen musicians from parishes and schools in the Archdiocese of New Orleans gathered last month to hear and evaluate 12 new musical settings of the Order of Mass based on the new Roman Missal.

For eight days at Loyola University New Orleans, three priests and five deacons absorbed the cool mathematics and internal symmetry of good preaching. Just as Moses descended from Mt. Sinai with 10 commandments chiseled on two stone tablets, the rules laid out by Father Roy Shelly and Deborah Wilhelm of the Diocese of Monterey, while not etched in permanent marker, are boundaries worthy of respect: six to eight minutes for a Sunday homily, three to five minutes for a weekday sermon.

While they may have been officially celebrating 50 years of the parish’s founding, parishioners at St. Anthony of Padua in Luling honored Catholic faith traditions shared at an early mission chapel built in 1902, their Spanish Mission-style stucco church built in 1926 and the current structure built in 1968 to accommodate a burgeoning parish.

When the fire came in 2001, Walter Bonam stood outside his home and wrapped his arms around his wife Jennifer and daughter Amanda. As flames engulfed everything in their house in New Orleans East, Walter was the embodiment of one of his favorite writers, Trappist monk Thomas Merton, whose books he had devoured and assimilated over a lifetime of prayer and discernment – the books that now were going up in smoke.

A s many readers already know, Walter Bonam, a member of the archdiocesan staff, was shot in a home invasion July 6 in front of his wife and daughter. He remains paralyzed but in prayerful and hopeful spirits.