By Christine Bordelon The annual Black Catholic Saints Celebration is scheduled for Nov. 4, beginning at 10 a.m. with a procession around the grounds of St. Mary’s Academy, 6901 Chef Menteur Hwy., New Orleans.

By Christine Bordelon Catch a glimpse inside the life of St. Maria Soledad Torres Acosta, founder of the Servants of Mary Sisters who care and comfort the sick, at the New Orleans premiere of the award-winning family movie “Light of Soledad” Nov. 10 at the Jefferson Performing Arts Theatre, 6400 Airline Drive, Metairie.

By Peter Finney Jr. Archbishop Gregory Aymond and Lutheran Bishop Michael Rinehart commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation – as well as the sweeping signs of unity between Catholics and Lutherans since the Second Vatican Council – with a prayer service Oct. 23 at St. Louis Cathedral.

By Ron Brocato, Sports Unlike most other championship sports sanctioned by the Louisiana High School Athletic Association, the volleyball championship playoffs include both public and non-public schools.

By Christine Bordelon The third annual, community-wide online Catholic giving campaign #iGive Catholic 2017 is scheduled for Nov. 28, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. This year, parishes, schools, ministries and nonprofits from 17 Catholic dioceses nationwide – from Helena, Montana, to Paterson, New Jersey, to Austin, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia –  are participating, an increase from six dioceses in 2016, said Josephine Everly, local president of the #iGiveCatholic campaign, established by The Catholic Foundation.

Deadline: Submissions due Thursday (10 days before each issue) calendar@clarionherald.org (504) area code unless noted Nov. 5-16 PARISHES SACRED HEART OF JESUS , River Parishes Fall Festival “Queen of Hearts Pageant,” Nov. 5, noon, Sacred Heart cafeteria.

Academy of Our Lady Robotics Team recently competed in FIRST Steamworks in the offseason Red Stick Rumble in Baton Rouge against 24 teams from Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. Academy of Our Lady’s robotics team advanced to the quarterfinals with its home-built robot called Tonks.

Cabrini High School’s Mu Alpha Theta club hosted its third annual free Middle School Math Tournament for boys and girls Sept. 30. Students were not allowed to bring a calculator for any tests. Awards were given to students who placed first through sixth on the individual or team tests, and the top three scoring schools on the interschool test received a school trophy.

By Ron Brocato, Sports I was just 11 when I saw my first high school football game. In it, St. Aloysius defeated Jesuit to win its first New Orleans Prep League championship. As I remember, it was a chilly but sunny October Sunday afternoon.

God waits for everyone, even the worst sinner who repents only with his dying breath, Pope Francis said. “Before God, we present ourselves with empty hands,” he said, meaning that all the good works people have or haven’t done throughout their lives aren’t measured to determine entry into heaven.

Sounds like a legitimate question. Imagine, for moment, says Jim Kelly, executive director of Covenant House New Orleans, that the NOPD has reliable information that a James Beard Award-winning restaurant in New Orleans has a private upstairs room where, after the rack of lamb and the Dom Perignon and the bread pudding soufflé, diners excuse themselves to a private upper room for a nightcap with paid escorts offering sex and drugs.

La Iglesia celebrará la Semana Nacional de Concientización sobre las Vocaciones, del 5 al 11 de noviembre, para que las parroquias de los EE. UU. fomenten y oren activamente por una cultura de vocaciones al sacerdocio, el diaconado y la vida religiosa.