“We have everything going for us but history,” said Tulane’s director of athletics Troy Dannen. Dannen’s comments raised a few eyebrows at the first meeting of the 2017 season of the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation Quarterback Club.

BY CLARION HERALD The Table Foundation will host the second annual Olive Mass at St. Louis Cathedral, which brings together food, beverage and hospitality professionals who serve in the New Orleans community, Sept. 25 at 10 a.m. Archbishop Gregory Aymond will be the principal celebrant.

By Clarion Herald Staff Photo | COURTESY ARCHBISHOP RUMMEL HIGH SCHOOL Alumni priests Fathers Kevin ’92 and Chris DeLerno ’86, Tim Hedrick ’00, Frank Giroir ’73 and Travis Clark ’01 of Archbishop Rummel High School returned in early September to concelebrate the Mass of the Holy Spirit with fellow alumnus Father Kurt Young ’05, school chaplain.The six alumni priests joined principal Marc Milano and seniors in singing the alma mater, led by Student Council president Michael McLaughlin on the trumpet.

On a recent morning at Hobby Lobby in Elmwood, half a dozen women were happily sewing inside a meeting room. They weren’t finishing a project for themselves but making cotton liners to go inside menstrual kits for the nonprofit “Days for Girls.” “I thought it was a great idea, and I wanted to do something,” said Paula Hardin, a parishioner of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Belle Chasse, about first discovering Days for Girls in Oprah Magazine.

By Christine Bordelon The spirit of helping others is strong in young adult Catholics in New Orleans. Once a month, a dedicated group spends a Wednesday evening filling bags with sandwiches and other goodies and then hand-delivers them to the homeless under the interstate as part of the archdiocese’s Young Adult Ministry’s Magnify and Midnight Run event.

Sometimes it’s easy to get overwhelmed and discouraged with everything going on around us. We have our own chaotic schedules and never-ending to-do lists. We look on our social media feeds and news outlets and encounter doom and gloom.

By Ron Brocato, Sports As we move along to the third weekend of the 2017 fall sports season, a few things stand out: (1) High school volleyball is as strong as ever, and (2) several of the traditional Catholic school football teams in “The League” will be scrounging for victories.

By Peter Finney Jr. Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York; Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas; and Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Arizona, will address more than 400 priests from the state of Louisiana Sept. 19-21 at the 2017 Louisiana Priests’ Convention in New Orleans.

By Christine Bordelon Dubbed Team Cushaw, Team Beef Stew and Team Bread Pudding, members of several local restaurant groups united Sept. 5-6 to help Second Harvest Food Bank’s Community Kitchen prepare meals for victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas.

By Christine Bordelon Several local events in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the Virgin Mary’s appearances in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917, to shepherd children Francisco and Jacinta Marto and their cousin Lucy dos Santos are scheduled throughout the archdiocese.

The Clarion Herald’s Catholic High School Information section is packed with information parents and students need to know. Each of the 22 Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of New Orleans writes about its distinguishing characteristics: its curriculum, academics, religious formation, extracurricular and athletic programs.

Deadline: Submissions due Thursday (10 days before each issue) calendar@clarionherald.org (504) area code unless noted Sept. 21-Oct. 7 PARISHES ST. FRANCIS XAVIER , Sharing Program, spiritual evening rosary group for pro-life, meets every third Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. in the parish’s Memorial Garden of the Unborn.

In a raw, honest prayer service where victims and perpetrators of violence stood under the gaze of a bomb-damaged crucifix, Pope Francis urged Colombians to summon the courage to make peace. Symbolically presiding over the event Sept. 8 was what remained of a crucifix from the church in Bojaya, an image of Jesus whose arms and legs were blown off in 2002 when an improvised homemade mortar launched by rebels crashed through the roof of a church and exploded.

Lois Stern de Gruy was 11 years old in 1938 when her Jewish father, Jerome, heard something about the citywide procession to City Park being planned for the Eighth National Eucharistic Congress in New Orleans.

The annual Catholic League Volleyball Tournament, featuring a 15-team field that includes three reigning state champions, will take place on Sept. 15-16 at the Ursuline Academy and Dominican gymnasiums.

Lo s obispos de los Estados Unidos, salieron con fuerza en oposición a la decisión del Presidente Trump, de poner fin al Programa de Acción Diferida por Llegadas de Menores (DACA). ¿Puede explicar, por qué este es un tema moral tan importante?

‘Racial divide’ New Orleans I would like to thank Peter Finney Jr. so much for his article (“Is there any hope for our country’s racial divide?” Sept. 2, 2017 Clarion Herald)! His articles are always the first that I read, and this one touched me deeply.

Th e bishops of the United States came out forcefully in opposition to President Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Can you explain why this is such an important moral issue?

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By Christine Bordelon Hope. That’s what 50-plus St. Catherine of Siena Parish volunteers offered to those devastated by Hurricane Harvey as part of a pre-dawn caravan of six 18-wheelers with donated supplies to Texas Sept. 9.