Catholic Elementary/ Middle School Day Camps (operated by individual schools or church parishes) (504) area code unless noted IN NEW ORLEANS ➤ CHRISTIAN BROTHERS Boys and girls entering grades 3-7. June 8-19, June 22-July 3, July 6-17, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Archbishop Rummel’s summer camp, set on the sprawling Metairie campus at 1901 Severn Ave., will celebrate its 43rd year of operation in 2014. “The camp has a long-standing tradition; we haven’t changed much because the formula we have works,” said Kevin Carrigee, a 1992 Rummel graduate who attended the camp beginning at age 5 and worked his way through the ranks as a junior counselor, adult counselor, and now camp director.

St. Stanislaus, the 1854-founded Catholic boys’ school in Bay St. Louis, Miss., has operated its popular “Camp Stanislaus” from its beachfront campus since 1928. In addition to providing boys ages 8-15 with both day camp and residential camp options June 15 through July 12, Camp Stanislaus again will offer a summer program for girls in the same age group from June 15-July 5.

Elmwood Fitness Center, a service of Ochsner, will operate three special-interest camps this summer, each geared toward providing children with summer fun while keeping them physically fit. One way to beat the heat this summer is the double-sided, inflatable water slide that has two rock climbs and two slides.

Harry’s Dive Shop in Metairie is gearing up for its popular weeklong “SCUBA Ranger” camps introducing boys and girls ages 8 and older to the fundamentals of SCUBA diving. “Each child has to like the water and be comfortable in it.

It was a scene that could only have unfolded at a Catholic school. Back in the mid-1980s, when St. Matthew the Apostle teacher Mary Ann Broussard spied some of her first graders taking a shortcut through a campus flowerbed, she scolded them in that very loving, Catholic way.

A wavy pencil forms the letter “S.” Three boxes of children’s watercolors unite to create a cheery “H.” An artist’s palette mimics the letter “C.” When Molly Millet planned her design scheme for this year’s Catholic Schools Week banner contest, she didn’t simply throw in all the typical symbols of a well-rounded Catholic education – the books, the musical notes, the math equations – she took pains to invent an entire font.

Seven seniors at the Academy of the Sacred Heart have spent this year learning about financial concepts and entrepreneurship in a new “Financial Literacy” course taught by Aubrey Miller, owner of PJ’s Coffee on Magazine Street.

The Archdiocese of New Orleans will offer training sessions in upcoming weeks for parishioners involved with the implementation of the archdiocesan synod’s priorities and goals, said John Smestad Jr., director of the Office of Pastoral Planning and Ministries.

The annual Retirement Fund for Religious collection will be held Dec. 10-11 in the Archdiocese of New Orleans and most parishes across the U.S.  Now in its 29th year, the collection is coordinated by the National Religious Retirement Office (NRRO) and benefits nearly 33,000 elderly Catholic sisters, brothers and religious order priests whose religious communities lack adequate retirement funding.

Gov. John Bel Edwards has indicated he supports the Louisiana Scholarship Program that last year provided 7,400 students statewide in kindergarten through 12th grade with more than $42 million in scholarships to attend nonpublic schools, said Rob Tasman, executive director of the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops (LCCB), the public policy arm of the state’s seven bishops.

A new cohort of attorneys have begun a two-year, incubator program through the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law that will help provide legal services to the underserved. The program is an intensive mentorship and skills program for recent College of Law graduates who are engaged in solo law practice.

A November sunset paints the backdrop for St. Mary’s Dominican High School’s Science and Technology Complex construction site. At right, members of the Dominican administration, including Dr. Cynthia Thomas, president, and Carolyn Favre, principal, sign their names inside a cupola that will top the construction.

All that’s necessary for the St. Philip Neri Early Childhood Center to open is the state’s seal of approval. That should come soon. Photos by Frank J. Methe | CLARION HERALD

Queridos hermanas y hermanos en Cristo: El jueves 8 de noviembre, nuestra nación votará por el próximo Presidente de los Estados Unidos. Veremos los nombres de los dos candidatos representando los partidos políticos más importantes de la nación, y aun no recuerdo ninguna elección en toda mi vida que haya producido más confusión, incomodidad e inclusive enojo.

Una nueva exposición en honor a la vida, y el legado de la Venerable Henriette Delille, ya está abierta al público en el Museo del Antiguo Convento de las Ursulinas. ¿Qué podemos aprender de su vida?

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I am not sure Jimbo Fisher was ever in the mix to be the new head coach at LSU. Vice chancellor and director of athletics Joe Alleva appeared to have a Plan A (Tom Herman) and a Plan 1A (Ed Orgeron) to fill the vacancy as LSU’s new football coach.

Since the holiday season is here, let me describe Tulane University’s three-year-old football stadium in a term that locals can understand. It’s a shoo-shoo. A shoo-shoo, of course, is a firecracker or a bottle rocket that never goes off.

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?