As part of its centennial celebration, the University of Holy Cross is bringing The Saint John’s Bible to the Archdiocese of New Orleans for the first time.The Saint John’s Bible is a handwritten and illuminated Bible that has taken a team of scribes and artists more than a decade to complete in the tradition of handwritten medieval manuscripts.

The Catholic Foundation of the Archdiocese of New Orleans was stunned by the success of the inaugural iGiveCatholic online fund-raising campaign, which in 2015 raised more than $1.3 million in 24 hours on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving for Catholic churches, schools and organizations in the archdiocese.

All night long Friday, I waited with much anticipation for the score of a Class 2A playoff game. Top-seeded Many High School was playing the 32nd seed, General Trass. Could those vaunted Tigers somehow claw their way past an 0-10 team that had lost its last two regular-season games by a combined score of 99-26?

Nine volleyball teams from schools in the Archdiocese of New Orleans punched their ticket to compete in the quarterfinal round of the Allstate Sugar Bowl/LHSAA state tournamant, which begins on Nov. 10.

We live in troubled times. Perhaps this is a truth we’ve known for some time; perhaps only recently have we realized the extent of this truth. Regardless of the timing of our knowledge, it’s hard to deny this fact in light of our recent presidential election.

Several years ago, when the Louisiana High School Coaches Association added the sport of volleyball to its weekend of All-Star games, they used the Mississippi River as the dividing line between East and West teams.

Visiting the sick and the imprisoned are works of mercy that not only benefit the suffering and the abandoned, but benefit the visitors who are enriched by being with those who suffer like Christ, Pope Francis said.

When the slavery question, finally, became a sword to which the republic no longer could avert its eyes, Abraham Lincoln turned to Stephen Douglas and said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Lincoln was quoting the words of Jesus (Mark 3:25), but he did not have to invoke Jesus’ name to an audience that fully comprehended who first spoke those words.

Two days before Veterans Day, Harold Schwartz, a Navy boilermaker during World War II, stepped foot on the Holy Cross School campus, a site he had frequented many times before as a member of the American Legion Oaks Post 333, whose headquarters were at St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church once located here.

The name is a tongue-twister – Virtue-Based Restorative Discipline – but at St. Peter School in Covington, it is regarded as “Catholic Identity” at its most fundamental. For the second straight school year, every St. Peter student, teacher, administrator and parent is being challenged to be a better practitioner of the virtues; to support others in their own living out of the virtues; to more mindfully dedicate themselves to constructive thoughts, words and deeds; and to find solutions in support of virtue, even in prickly times of disagreement.

They may have attended the high school, or their daughters or granddaughters were graduates or there may have been a connection through teaching. Regardless, approximately 30 families have contributed to Archbishop Chapelle High School’s growing endowment.

The shepherd’s pie was tantalizing, but food wasn’t on the mind of Westwego Police Lt. Danny Johnson when he popped into Our Lady of Prompt Succor School’s cafeteria Sept. 23 to spend his lunch break with students.

When Anna Dominique noticed her students were balling up their on-campus copies of the Clarion Herald before even putting them into their backpacks to take home, she knew she had to find a creative way to reverse this trend.

The story of “The Kissing Hand” comforted Sophie Rodriguez when she was “a little kid.” But now that she’s a well-adjusted kindergartner at St. Catherine of Siena School in Metairie, Sophie thought it might be time to give her beloved book to someone who could really use it.

Having already completed original works of art inspired by George Rodrigue’s “Blue Dog” and Clementine Hunter’s “memory” paintings, fourth graders at St. Louis King of France turned their attention to making individual kinetic sculptures in anticipation of a special classroom guest: Kinetic sculptor – and Louisiana resident – Lin Emery.

Four characteristics of the Eucharist – a gift of self that is “taken,” “blessed,” “broken” and “given” – also describe the way St. Teresa of Calcutta lived out her faith, said Transitional Deacon Colm Cahill, reflecting on how Mother Teresa embodied those eucharistic adjectives on a global stage during St. Pius X Parish’s Aug. 31 Holy Hour.

Visitation of Our Lady seventh grader Haley Tran said she was inspired by the Missionary Childhood Association’s simple yet beautiful motto of “Children Helping Children” when she sat down to design her winning logo for the upcoming celebration of Children’s Mission Day.