WGNO sports director Ed Daniels, a Clarion Herald sports columnist, received Lifetime Achievement Award from the Press Club of New Orleans. Daniels has hosted WGNO’s award-winning, prep-football highlights show on Friday nights for the last 23 years.

Want an easy way to find a Catholic Mass at a particular time in the Archdiocese of New Orleans? Download the free “Where Y’at” Mass finder app available for both iPhones (through iTunes) and android phones (through the Android market).

No matter where it is conducted, in West Virginia or near West Metairie Avenue, at some point, camp is camp. Ten days into training camp, players are ready for preseason games to begin. But, for a handful of players, like rookie free agent wide receiver Seantavius Jones of Valdosta State, every practice and every play is big.

Meeting a Sudanese woman who risked execution for not renouncing her Catholic faith, Pope Francis thanked Meriam Ibrahim for her steadfast witness to Christ. The pope spent 30 minutes with Ibrahim, her husband and two small children July 24, just hours after she had arrived safely in Italy following a brutal ordeal of imprisonment and a death sentence for apostasy in Sudan.

Dominican Brother Roger A. Shondel, a member of the Southern Dominican Province of St. Martin 
DePorres, is celebrating his 50th anniversary of religious profession of vows as a Dominican friar. Assigned to St. Dominic Priory, he serves as sub-prior and syndic for his Dominican 
friars community and has been on the faculty of St. Mary’s Dominican High School as a guidance counselor for the past 31 years.

Father Anton Perkovic, a priest whose struggles with the Nazis and the communists during WWII in Yugoslavia mirrored the challenges of St. John Paul II, was “a man of the church” who dedicated his priestly life to serving others, Father William O’Donnell said at Father Perkovic’s funeral Mass July 26 at Our Lady of the Lake Church in Mandeville.

The New Orleans and Missouri provinces of the Society of Jesus merged into the new U.S. Central and Southern Province on July 31, the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola. To mark the unification, Jesuit Father Ronald A. Mercier, the new provincial, will be the principal celebrant of a Mass Aug. 2 at 4 p.m. at Holy Name of Jesus Church in New Orleans.

Religious Sister of the Sacred Heart Lynne Lieux grew up blissfully insulated in New Roads, Louisiana, and for more than three decades in her ministry as an educator of girls in the tradition of St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, she has marveled at the richness of blessings and opportunities showered upon her in religious life.

“The pope is talking about Mom!” my daughter Marie-Thérèse exclaimed to my husband Al as they sat in Rome’s Olympic Stadium in the midst 52,000 people at an international conference of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in June.

The Knights of Peter Claver will host its 99 th annual National Convention of the Catholic Fraternal Order July 25-30 at the Arthur R. Outlaw Convention Center in Mobile. In addition to business sessions, the convention host several activitie, including community service projects.

Sister of the Holy Family Mary Greta Jupiter was elected congregational leader June 25 at the 14th General Chapter of the Sisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans. She had previously served as the interim congregational leader from February through June 2014 and as the first general councilor from June 2010 to February 2014.

After the daily morning Mass, back in the years when he worked long hours as a professional electrician, Bob Rauch would watch in quiet admiration as two elderly men hauled boxes of parishioner-donated canned goods from the vestibule of St. Christopher Church to the “food shed” – a small building on parish grounds for the storage and assembly of emergency food for those who were having a tough time making ends meet.

When Holy Name of Jesus students return to their classrooms next month, a major enhancement to their campus is likely to go unnoticed. Sixty-five windows gracing the iconic red brick school might look like they have been there forever, but they actually are newly installed reproductions of the building’s original wood frame windows, constructed in 1932.

Our Lady of Holy Cross College has been accepted as a partner institution in the Small World Initiative, an innovative research collaboration based at Yale University that focuses on addressing the diminishing supply of effective antibiotics.

New presidents and principals have been named for the 2014-2015 school year at some Catholic elementary and high schools. HIGH SCHOOLS Sean Goodwin (‘95), acting principal, St. Augustine High School, New Orleans, served as assistant principal last year.

The Clarion Herald won eight awards at the 2014 Catholic Media Conference sponsored June 18-20 by the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada! First-place awards: Individual Excellence as an Editor: Peter Finney Jr. (columns on “The mom who finished the race and kept the faith”; “Gold shovels a dark symbol for Planned Parenthood”; “No joke: Cooper Manning really loves his brothers”; “A mother’s love: ‘All I had to do was get out of the truck’”; “Baby Noah is a miracle of life, love and the cross”).

In the July 5 issue, the Clarion Herald published an eight-page section detailing the history of Vietnamese Catholics in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Due to an editing error, the Clarion Herald published an incorrect flag representing the Republic of Vietnam.

How can we donate? Abita Springs Just finished an article about Planned Parenthood in the July 5 Clarion Herald. The fact that they are painting a pretty picture of what will take place at their butcher shop and are deceiving young people about the real purpose is really disheartening, to say the least.

The ink was not dry on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision before the attacks began. “The immediate effect … is to deny many thousands of women contraceptive coverage vital to their well-being and reproductive freedom,” intoned The New York Times.

Author Ruth Ann Hanley is an animal lover, so much so that she made the protagonist in her latest book,  “No Pulling Back: Tale of a Fighter Dog,” a dog. She traces the dog’s conversion from being a dog named Daemon best known for his “killer” instinct leading a pack of dogs in killing contests in early Roman amphitheaters to becoming a trust-worthy and protective companion to Jesus, his apostles and his mother Mary.