Academy of Our Lady held its Honor Society Induction Ceremony Jan. 19 where students were inductee into various honor societies including Mu Alpha Theta, National Art Honor Society, National English Honor Society, National French Honor Society, Science National Honor Society, RHO Kappa Social Studies Honor Society and Spanish Honor Society.

St. Edward’s afterschool rosary group invites children to deepen their relationship with the Blessed Mother: Every Wednesday after the 3 p.m. dismissal, more than two dozen St. Edward the Confessor students voluntarily remain on campus to pray the rosary together in church.

On Ash Wednesday, we will begin our 40-day Lenten journey. During this time, God will call us to look carefully at ourselves and identify our weakness and sin. In so doing, we can undergo a change of heart and draw closer to the Lord Jesus.

Pops, an inmate at B.B. “Sixty” Rayburn Correctional Center, announces the same personal intention at every Wednesday night Communion service held inside his prison’s 200-seat chapel: “Lord, help us so one day these gates will open up, and we all can go home in glory.”

El miércoles de ceniza, comenzaremos nuestro viaje cuaresmal de 40 días. Durante este tiempo, Dios nos llamará a mirar cuidadosamente a nosotros mismos, e identificar nuestra debilidad y nuestro pecado. Al hacerlo, podemos experimentar un cambio de corazón, y acercarnos al Señor Jesús.

Despite the dawn of a new year, how many of us can say that we truly love the months of January and February? For me, they are the cruelest months of the year. They are the heart of winter: the coldest months, particularly if the groundhog sees its shadow.

Over Christmas break, a ragtag group of 11 young men, two youth ministers and a priest traveled to Mexico for a 10-day adventure of a lifetime. This was a joint trip through my home parish, Our Lady of the Lake in Mandeville, and Christ the King Parish at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

If a bishop issues a statement that nobody hears, does he make a sound? It’s not a joke. A woman wrote recently asking why the U.S. bishops had never said anything about the racist demonstrations and subsequent violence in Charlottesville this past summer.

The wall of resistance that stands between public school principals and common sense is more solid than the wall of Jericho. It’s quite obvious that this wall is unscalable, as reiterated at the Jan. 24-26 Louisiana High School Athletic Association’s convention in Baton Rouge.

Academy of Our Lady principal Salesian Sister Michelle Geiger was excited to welcome all alumni from Immaculate High School, Archbishop Blenk High School and Academy of Our Lady back to campus recently. After Mass she spent time with those who attended including Rebecca Ortega, AOL ’15; Flora Nguyen, AOL ’15; Emily Oncale, AOL  ’15 and Gabrielle Dauzat, AOL ’15.

A week before the Christmas break, bears of all colors and sizes sprawled across the gym stage at Our Lady of Prompt Succor School in Chalmette, each a heartfelt and huggable gift destined for a child in need of some comfort.

Against the backdrop of the nation’s opioid epidemic, the Metairie Substance Addiction Ministry (SAM) will host a resource and information fair Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. at the St. Angela Merici Church gymnasium, 901 Beverly Garden Drive, Metairie.

Pope Francis said he told the bishops and priests of Chile to be uncompromising when it comes to protecting minors from sexual abuse and to trust that God will purify and renew his church during this time of trial. Problems and conflicts must never be swept under the rug, he also said, because they can be resolved only through openness and dialogue.

When it isn’t broke, don’t fix it. That is what principals in the Louisiana High School Athletic Association said about their basketball playoffs. By a vote of 205-120, the principals voted down a proposal that would have united public and private schools in the same brackets.

By Dr. Emilie Leumas, Clarion Herald Contributing writer. River of Faith: 300 Years as a New Orleans Catholic Community: In 2015, New Orleans commemorated the 200th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans. While much of the United States overlooked the significance of the battle and its place in history, the Archdiocese of New Orleans curated an exhibit highlighting the power of prayer and the protection of Our Lady of Prompt Succor.

One-on-one encounters through a unique cultural exchange program is how the Sisters of the Congregation of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in the United States get to know fellow sisters in their missions in the Philippines and in Timor-Leste, north of Australia.

“This is a historical day for all of us to be together,” said current Magnificat international Central Service Team coordinator Donna Ross on Jan. 21. “It doesn’t happen all the time.” The occasion for the Central Service Team’s visit to Magnificat’s District 4 Metairie headquarters was a blessing by Father Beau Charbonnet,  chaplain, of the group’s remodeled office, headquarters for 37 years, and a joint planning meeting.