Esta entrevista, tuvo lugar unos días antes de la ejecución prevista para el 5 de febrero de Christopher Sepulvado, en la penitenciaría estatal de Luisiana en Angola. A Sepulvado, se le concedió un aplazamiento a su ejecución el año pasado, por un juez del estado, porque el Departamento Correccional de Luisiana, no proporcionó un protocolo escrito de cómo llevaría a cabo su ejecución, mediante un método “una-droga,”pero sus llamamientos parecen haberse agotado.

➤ Age: 33 ➤ Seminary year: 2nd Theology ➤ Elementary School: Ekwulumili Central School ➤ Home parish: Nigeria Secondary School Nnewi ➤ College /university: Dominican Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Ibadan, Nigeria ➤ Confirmation saint: St. Emmanuel ➤ Why did you choose this saint?

"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet,” wrote French novelist, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. I think many people would agree with Colette’s semi-famous quotation. I grew up with a golden retriever – a birthday present for my brother – who has been and continues to be an essential member of our family.

He won seven games and led his school to its first bowl game in 11 seasons. If Tulane’s Curtis Johnson equals that win total one year later, he and his staff will have turned in its best coaching job in three seasons at the school.

Dominican’s Savannah Norman (5) launches an underhand shot during a District 9-5A game against Archbishop Chapelle on Feb. 6. Chapelle won the battle for second place, 29-26. Unfortunately, neither has enough power points to qualify for the 32-team Class 5A playoffs.

The Academy of Our Lady’s bowling team defeated Bonnabel, 24-3, in a district march on Feb. 5. Led by Morgan Thibodeaux, who rolled a match-high 413 series, the Penguins remained perfect with a fourth consecutive win.

Since his sophomore spring of 2012, St. Paul’s Zachary Albright has been making his mark on Louisiana high school track and field. Now, as a senior, Albright is ready for a grand finale. And it started last weekend when he not only shattered his 1,600-meter run indoor mark of 4:19.31 but also erased the Carl Maddox Field House record by running 4:18.31 at the LSU High School qualifier indoor meet.

Catholic League champion St. Augustine had enough seniors signing college scholarships last week to field an 11-man team. About to pen their names to move on to the next level are, from left, Marseth Andry, Central Arkansas; Timothy Dawson II, Yale; Leonard Fournette, Louisiana State; Courtney Garnett, Oklahoma; Charles Jones, Tulane; Ryan Moore, Grambling; Joseph Paul, Oklahoma; Jermaine Roberts, Texas; Marlon Watts, Louisiana Tech; Peyton Winbush, Southeastern Louisiana; and Peter Woullard, Tulane.

Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, will address Notre Dame Seminary at 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 17, and the Archdiocese of New Orleans will be live-streaming the event. Cardinal Wuerl will speak about the New Evangelization and the 2013 Synod of Bishops.

It’s so important to go to Mass every Sunday because that’s where people receive Christ who saves, forgives and unites everyone to his father, church and each other, Pope Francis said. It’s also “important that children are well prepared for first Communion because … after baptism and confirmation it is the first step toward belonging strongly, really strongly, to Jesus Christ,” he said Feb. 5 at his weekly general audience.

More than 200 women and men religious attended a prayer service and luncheon celebrating World Day for Consecrated Life Feb. 8 at the Sisters of the Holy Family Motherhouse. They heard a talk from Archbishop Gregory Aymond, above left, about the recent Feast of the Presentation in which Mary and Joseph presented their son in the temple.

The Math Team from Archbishop Hannan High earned the following accolades at a Feb. 1 math tournament at Baton Rouge Magnet High (the respective students are pictured from left to right): Lena Decker, honorable mention, Geometry; Danny Whittaker, first place, Algebra II;  and Elizabeth Foy, honorable mention, Algebra II.

There are churches, and then there are churches – and that’s when the theological and architectural boxing matches break out, usually without the benefit of gloves. What is sacred, beautiful and heaven-sent in the eyes of some Catholics can be viewed as anachronistic by others.

Lloyd Harris Jr., 74, is a towering man, which is partly the reason he takes a knee in his third-grade music classroom at Edward Hynes Elementary School on Harrison Avenue. From his crouched position on the floor, Harris is at eye level with his 8-year-old students.

Nearly 80 percent of those responding to a survey of communications efforts in the Archdiocese of New Orleans viewed the print version of the Clarion Herald as their top source of information about the archdiocese and the universal Catholic Church, according to a survey conducted as part of a communications strategic planning process for the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

I've been thinking a lot about the Prodigal Son’s brother lately – you know, the guy who complained to his father that he had done everything right in his life but had received zero recognition for it, whereas his ne’er-do-well sibling had squandered his inheritance away yet somehow had merited the red-carpet treatment after having an 11th-hour epiphany.

Katherine Heller, a sixth grader at St. Christopher School in Metairie, was recently awarded The Deacon Rodney Trahan Memorial Scholarship, valued at $500. The scholarship is awarded to an outstanding altar server at St. Christopher School and is made possible by the Trahan family in memory of one of the parish's beloved deacons, Rodney Trahan.

Deadline: Submissions due Thursday (10 days before each issue) calendar@clarionherald.org (504) area code unless noted Feb. 9-17 SCHOOLS XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA, one-day National Tobacco Summit on the 50th Anniversary of the “Surgeon General’s Tobacco Report” focusing on how prevention can lead to a tobacco-free generation, Feb. 11, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

¿Qué tan frío estaba en Washington, D.C., el día de la marcha por la vida? Estaba muy frío. En el día de la marcha, la sensación térmica era de menos-9 grados. No creo que alguna vez haya caminado en esa clase de temperaturas antes.

At my frequently visited Target, there’s usually a check-out line that is slightly longer than the others, a line that moves at a slower pace than the ones beside it. This is the line that my husband and I look for during each of our visits.