Love for God, family and neighbor has literally been pouring out of Corpus Christi-Epiphany Parish since its founding a century ago as a hub of faith for African-American Catholics residing in and around New Orleans’ Seventh Ward.

The roll call of countries represented in the heritages of about two dozen northshore-based Catholics is long and varied: Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, Nicaragua, Chile, Venezuela, Spain, Puerto Rico. Uniting them over the last decade has been the Spanish Prayer Group at Mary Queen of Peace Parish in Mandeville, which meets monthly for an hour to 90 minutes of Spanish-language prayer, adult faith formation, food and fellowship.

BALTIMORE – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) today chose Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond as the new secretary-elect of the conference. Archbishop Aymond will serve one year as secretary-elect and then serve a full three-year term as secretary.

For the 2015-16 academic year, new administrators have been named at Archbishop Rummel High School. They are (left) Richard Carpenter, assistant principal of discipline and student achievement; Marc Milano, principal; Casey Cadella, assistant principal of admissions and communications; and Douglas Neill, assistant principal of academics and instruction.

Whoever said life is cheaper by the dozen probably never had to confront the modern dilemma of paying for a quality Catholic school education. In the years preceding and immediately following WWII, the thousands of women and men entering religious life and the priesthood guaranteed an inexpensive, virtually inexhaustible and superbly qualified pool of teachers in Catholic schools across the country.

More than fifty members of the Cabrini High School class of 2011 celebrated their five-year reunion in Alumnae Hall located in the school’s historic Esplanade Building. Special guests for the event were former teacher, cross country and track coach Rudy Horvath and current Social Studies teacher Paul Distler.

Cabrini High School’s Cheerleaders attended the Universal Cheerleading Association (UCA) Camp at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond. While at camp they learned multiple cheers, chants, and dances that will be used during the year to motivate and entertain the student body of Cabrini High School.

Last fall, when St. Pius X School in New Orleans formed its first academic games team since the early 1980s, few would have guessed that three of the team’s youngest members would march straight to the national sweepstakes in Atlanta.

From the balcony, Archbishop Gregory Aymond blessed St. Mary Dominican High School’s new Gayle and Tom Benson Science and Technology Complex on April 22. The dedication culminated 14 months of construction of the $10 million, two-story, nearly 17,000-square-foot complex dedicated to the school’s STREAM initiative (Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Arts and Math).

It was 10:10 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 28 – 20 minutes before the regular 10:30 a.m. Mass at St. Rita Church in New Orleans – normally a time when the church is pin-drop quiet except for the sacristan, the organist and a few early arrivers reciting the rosary.

The olive tree wheeled into the sanctuary of Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church in Westwego was a powerful symbol of unity as locals of various faith traditions gathered for the Archdiocese of New Orleans’ “Interfaith Service for the Year of Mercy.” “We come together as one people, united in faith, to praise our God,” said Archbishop Gregory Aymond, welcoming the diverse congregation of about 250 to the Nov. 2 event entitled “Mercy is a Bridge” in honor of Pope Francis’ Jubilee Year metaphor for human beings’ solid link to divine forgiveness.

On Nov. 20, the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, seminarians from Notre Dame Seminary and parishioners of St. Rita Church in New Orleans processed with the Blessed Sacrament from the church to the Notre Dame Seminary chapel, located two blocks away.

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ: This Sunday we not only continue our Advent journey as we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus at Christmas and await his coming at the end of time – but we also prepare for the Jubilee Year of Mercy called for by Pope Francis.

Archbishop Gregory Aymond used Holy Week to visit and pray with those who are incarcerated. On Holy Thursday, following the lead of Pope Francis, he washed the feet of nine teenagers at Jefferson Parish’s Rivarde Juvenile Detention Facility in Harvey, left.

“We have witnessed the largest mass shooting in the United States. This terrorist attack is a sign of the lack of respect for human life. We live in a time of irrational violence and cannot shrug it off as “another 51 people died.” Let us speak about respect for all, be instruments of peace and make sure our personal lives are peaceful.

To: Clergy, Religious and Laity in the Archdiocese of New Orleans Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ: Our sisters and brothers in the Dioceses of Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Lake Charles have been greatly affected by the recent flooding.

The canonization of St. Edward the Confessor reminds us that when Jesus said “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of God,” he was speaking of the hold that riches have on us, not of the riches themselves.

In society today we are witnessing national and local political campaigns that have become very negative and in many cases disrespectful to others. We must make sure our voices are heard and call for greater civility in politics.

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