His departure will be a footnote in the midst of another football season. Higgins football coach Wayne Meyers deserves more. Meyers was asked to resign by the school’s principal the week of his team’s season finale against Chalmette.

Let’s make one thing crystal clear before the actual hitting begins: St. Augustine will win the Select Division I football championship. You may have noticed I didn’t write “state” championship, because with separate playoffs for select and public school qualifiers, there will be no true state champion.

Longtime New Orleans champion of education Phyllis M. Taylor, chairwoman and president of the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation, is the recipient of Loyola University New Orleans’ 2013 Integritas Vitae Award, the university’s highest honor.

NOLA Catholic Experience, an increasingly popular blogging site for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, is celebrating its first anniversary this month by asking local Catholics to submit their personal reflections.

Saying, “don’t worry, we aren’t taking up a collection,” Pope Francis asked people at his weekly general audience to perform an act of charity by praying for a seriously ill 18-month-old girl named Noemi.

Harvey Crowley Couch III had just retired in 2012 after serving more than 40 years as a professor of law at Tulane University Law School. Harvey and his wife Duane, faithful members of the St. Thomas More campus ministry center at Tulane, had looked forward to his retirement, which surely would provide more time for him to enjoy his grandchildren and pursue his passion for reading.

On behalf of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Archbishop Gregory Aymond signed a covenant with the NOLA Interfaith Peace Initiative Nov. 6 pledging the archdiocese and its churches to join with government, business and community organizations to develop and foster activities that will lead to a more peaceful New Orleans.

33 Domingo tiempo ordinario Noviembre 17, 2013 Lc. 21: 1-19 “Una viuda compra el reino con dos Centavos.” El juicio particular y el de Jerusalén. esus ha llegado a Jerusalén y está en el área del templo.

32 Domingo tiempo ordinario Noviembre 10, 2013 Luc. 20:27-38 “Ustedes no entienden ni la Bibla, ni el poder de Dios.” La tirania del relativismo. Los saduceos se acercan a Jesus con una pregunta engañosa, con el fin de desacreditarlo ante la gente.

“There is an urgent need … to see once again that faith is a light, for once the flame of faith dies out, all other lights begin to dim. The light of faith is unique, since it is capable of illuminating every aspect of human existence,” says Pope Francis in his first encyclical “Lumen Fidei.” To help Catholics understand Pope Francis’ message in “Lumen Fidei,” listening sessions are being held throughout the Archdiocese of New Orleans this month.

“Authentic power is service,” Pope Francis said shortly after he was elected pope. But how did he come to believe and live that? Chris Lowney, author of  “Pope Francis: Why He Leads the Way He Leads,” said “leaders act on beliefs and convictions formed long before they reached the executive suite or papal apartments.

More than 23,000 people are expected at the “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC) being held Nov. 21-23 in Indianapolis, sponsored by the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry (NFCYM).

Although it is easy to become discouraged, there are many signs of hope regarding growing racial harmony in our area, said members of the discussion group who gathered at Brother Martin High last month to reflect on Archbishop Alfred Hughes' 2006 pastoral letter, "Made in the Image and Likeness of God: A Pastoral Letter on Racial Harmony": ➤ During last October’s “Month of the Rosary,” various cultural groups were invited to St. Paul the Apostle Church to recite a decade of the rosary in their own language, reported Sister of the Holy Family Laura Mercier.

Deadline: Submissions due Thursday (10 days before each issue) calendar@clarionherald.org (504) area code unless noted Nov. 9-16 SCHOOLS ZUMBATHON, Cabrini’s Eclipse Dance Team Zumbathon raises funds and collects winter clothing for St. Jude Community Center, Nov. 9, 9-11 a.m., Cabrini Gym, Moss St., New Orleans.

"Each person is a child of God and made in His image” is a phrase that most are taught at a young age. But what happens to this mindset as we get older? Most children are blind to the concept of race.

Recently, I assigned my students a project in which they had to create a persuasive video argument that would take a certain position on an issue they cared about. Not only would they have to inform their audience about their issue and explain why they are arguing for a certain side, but they had to persuade their audience – a class of 20 college students – that their issue and position were important and mattered.

At Archbishop Hannan, the shadow program that once struggled to get prospective students through the door is now booming with full shadow days, thanks to the leadership of Admissions Director Craig Fiedler and Student Ambassador board member Carly Caballero.

The 2013 prep football regular season was memorable in metro New Orleans. St. Aug, led by running back Leonard Fournette, beat John Curtis. The Purple Knights chase an elusive destination, a place they have never been.

It was a clean sweep. Every volleyball team from high schools in the Archdiocese of New Orleans earned a berth in the Louisiana High School Athletic Association’s playoffs, which was scheduled to begin on Nov. 7.

Saints aren’t superheroes, they are regular people who just never left God’s side after encountering him and his love, Pope Francis said on the feast of All Saints. “Being a saint is not a privilege of the few, like someone getting a large inheritance.