A f ew years ago, you wrote eloquently about businesses profiting off the construction of the Planned Parenthood clinic in New Orleans, and you warned that if they participated in building the facility, they would be participating in any future evil that would occur there.

Academy of Our Lady inducted students in its chapter of the National Honor Society. Pictured, front row, from left, are: senior Kristan Dufrene, Caroline DiPascal,  Madison Nguyen, sophomore Hannah Autry, juniors Alexandra Mahler, Megan Russell, sophomore Lindsey Nguyen and junior Georgette Toups.

At St. Mary’s Dominican High School, 65 students were inducted into the National Honor Society. Membership in the society is based on the four pillars of character, scholarship, leadership and service and is limited to juniors and seniors who maintain a minimum 3.75 (A) average, demonstrate volunteer or service hours, preserve an excellent record of behavior in and out of school, participate in leadership roles in co-curricular and/or community activities and have a faculty recommendation.

By Beth Donze Clarion Herald The Daughters of St. Paul will take their nationally acclaimed Christmas concert of religious sister-performed songs to New Orleans for the first time, on two dates in December.

By Christine Bordelon When a person is substituted for the statistic – 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage – that means many couples are familiar with the pain associated with the loss of a child. How couples recover and the time it takes to grieve this loss varies, but there are concrete steps to take to ease the pain, said Elizabeth Wilson, LCSW, senior therapist/clinician for the past nine years at Woman’s New Life Center in New Orleans.

By Clarion Herald staff The following is a list of programs for 3-year-olds in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, as reported to the Clarion Herald. Programs for even younger children are also listed, where applicable.

By Peter Finney Jr. The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), which funds anti-poverty programs in the U.S., will be taken up at all churches of the Archdiocese of New Orleans at Masses on the weekend of Nov. 18-19.

By Shannon Eaton, R.N., B.S.N., C.F.C.P., Contributing writer Shannon Eaton, a fertility care director at the Woman’s New Life Center, 4612 S. Claiborne Ave. in New Orleans, offers the following insights about recent developments in Natural Family Planning (NFP).

By Joy Zainey, Contributing writer Clarion Herald Joy and Jay Zainey have three adult children – Margaret, 38; Christopher, 35; and Andrew, 29. Andrew has autism and is non-verbal, and the Zaineys have encountered challenges every step of the way, not the least being the sometimes cold reactions Joy and Jay get when Andrew is in public and makes loud noises.

By Clarion Herald Staff Two sisters of Mount Carmel were honored Nov. 4 in celebration of the anniversary of their religious professions at a Mass and lunch at the Mount Carmel Motherhouse in New Orleans.

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For approximately 30 years, Steve Scaffidi has been making films and videos in a wide variety of genres – from music videos early in his career to documentaries about Catholic teens traveling and gaining closeness to God in Medjugorje.

By Molly Howat, Contributing writer I distinctly remember the first time I attended Mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Trujillo, Honduras. My team and I had just arrived at the orphanage where we were to be working, having just finished Spanish school in Guatemala for three months.

By Peter Finney Jr. Sister of Mount Carmel Mary Ellen Wheelahan, the safe environment coordinator of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, has spent years studying online perils that can harm children. One of the online resources she discovered recently was provided by the World Congress on Child Dignity in the Digital World in Rome – https://childdignity2017.org .

It was to be a great home field advantage. The tailgating was to be fantastic. The parking plan to accommodate thousands of fans arriving at Yulman Stadium was to be extensive. Oh well. Four years after the new stadium opened, Tulane’s return to campus for football has been a dud.

While walking to class, I noticed a small cemetery of wooden crosses outside the building housing St. Louis University’s campus ministry. I paused for a moment and looked a bit closer before recalling that we were now in the month of November.

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“There is no ‘I’ in team,” is written next to Welles Crowther’s Nyack (N.Y.) High School 1995 yearbook picture, his mother Alison Crowther recently told the faculty and students at Brother Martin High School in New Orleans.

By Beth Donze There is significant therapeutic value in giving people the opportunity to tell their stories and have them heard by those who are willing to listen. Had I not attended “Made in the Image and Likeness of God,” the Archdiocese of New Orleans’ four-part discussion series based on Archbishop Alfred Hughes’ 2006 pastoral letter on racial harmony, I would never have been made aware of some very recent ways hearts had been crushed and lives upended by lingering racism in our community, and even inside our church.