Wardell Quezergue was 80 and living at Chateau de Notre Dame. The musical artist known as “The Creole Beethoven” – a man who had written rhythm and blues standards that enriched the careers of Professor Longhair, the Neville Brothers, the Dixie Cups and Dr. John – was blind.

Más de 100 sacerdotes se reunieron la semana pasada en el seminario de Notre Dame, para un taller sobre el cultivo de unidad entre los sacerdotes. El tema específico era el tipo de formación sacerdotal que los sacerdotes han recibido en los últimos 60 años, y los cambios en la iglesia y en la sociedad, durante ese tiempo.

Mother’s Day is Sunday. What do you recall about your mother Yvonne? My mother was a great woman of faith. It was obvious to me that she reflected the radical and loving faith of her mother. I’m fortunate to be able to say that my mother and my grandmother were women I looked up to, not only for their faith but also for the way in which they lived their lives as kind and generous people and the way they put family first.

Sculptural representations of Jesus’ lifeless body typically show him nailed to the cross, his head bowed down, or cradled in the arms of his mother, just after the crucifixion. Far less common are statues that depict the expired Christ laid out on a stone slab – the way he would have appeared during his three days in the tomb.

Mayo es tiempo de graduaciones. ¿Asistirá a alguna? He dejado saber a nuestros colegios de secundaria Católicos, que estoy más que feliz de asistir a algunas de las graduaciones, si puedo programarla en mi calendario.

Deadline: Submissions due Thursday (10 days before each issue) calendar@clarionherald.org (504) area code unless noted May 4-11 SCHOOLS ST. RITA, Home and School association will sponsor a May crowning May 6 at 8 a.m., followed by the living rosary.

Aurora. Newtown. And now Boston. Lord, have mercy. As Catholic Christians, we accept that wrestling with fear and doubt is part of the journey. Tragedies just seem to highlight our questions of faith: How can this happen?

Christians believe they are saved by God’s grace, but they also know they will be judged at the end of time on how they used the talents God gave them and how they served others, especially the poor, Pope Francis said.

Bombings, explosions, earthquakes, tornadoes – it seems as though it’s one thing after the next these days, no matter what part of the world you’re in. When not a day goes by where some sort of tragedy doesn’t strike, sometimes one must wonder how much worse it could really get.

Archbishop Rummel High School holds a Life Skills Day on campus for students to learn about banking, time management, how to prepare for a job interview and how to use credit cards properly. Speakers included Ashton Ryan, First NBC president, and Todd Murphy, East Jefferson Chamber of Commerce president.

Upper School students from the Academy of the Sacred Heart recently visited the LSU Health Sciences Center simulation laboratory to learn what medical school is like. Students experienced working with laparoscopy simulators, listening to various heart and lung sounds and performing CPR on medical training mannequins.

Two Catholic school students recently were named “Non Public Student of the Year” in their respective grade divisions in the Archdiocese of New Orleans’ geographic area. Annelise Ernst, an Ursuline Academy eighth grader, and Mary Brent-Brown, a senior at St. Scholastica Academy, received the distinction in the annual contest that judges outstanding fifth, eighth and 12th graders in areas such as leadership, service, academics and interview skills.

Juniors and seniors at St. Scholastica Academy recently got to hear about a multitude of careers from 22 professional women at the school’s annual Career Day. The alumnae returned to their alma mater to offer guidance, advice and real world experience to students in social work, architecture, dentistry, veterinary medicine, nursing, the stock market and other fields.

St. Augustine High School junior David Bartholomew, won three medals in February for his project on parallel vs. series circuits at the Greater New Orleans Science & Engineering Fair held at the University of New Orleans.

Maybe it is just boys being boys. Maybe it is just coincidence. But, maybe it is more than that. On the weekend of the NFL draft, a former LSU Tiger and the team’s top returning running back were both arrested.

Brother Martin was on a mission to win its first state baseball championship since 1996 and its third overall when the Class 5A tournament brackets were announced last week. The Crusaders (28-5) are the No.

St. Paul’s Zachary Albright is the man to beat in the Class 5A 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs, but the senior runner could be in the race of his life in the eight-lap event with three competitors whose times are comparable.

Archbishop Hannan was close to winning a third consecutive Class 1A softball championship when it was stung by a swarm of Hornets in the final inning of the championship game. Mount Carmel’s attempt to win its first Class 5A softball title since 2008 was lost in a display of shock and awe by  a Sam Houston pitcher whose array of seven different pitches kept the Cubs stymied.

Dr. Jan Lancaster, superintendent of Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of New Orleans,  recently asked principals and school leaders to participate in Integrated Multilayered Planning for Active Shooter Events (IMPASE) workshops conducted by the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office.

More than 100 priests gathered last week at Notre Dame Seminary for a workshop on cultivating unity among priests. The specific topic was the type of priestly formation priests received over the last 60 years and the changes in the church and in society over that time.