The Bell Artspace Campus – 79 affordable apartments for artists located at the original Treme site of the former St. Joseph Academy – celebrated its grand opening April 19. Special guests included a dozen Catholic Sisters of St. Joseph, including Sister Joan LaPlace, above, whose congregation operated the all-girl academy from 1906-61. “It chokes me up to see it – to know where the (campus) came from, the state it was in (after Hurricane Katrina) and where it has ended up,” said Sister Joan, a member of the Class of 1959.

As I headed to my first “Retreats for Young Women” (RFYW) retreat, I dropped off kids and bags at various places and tapped my fingers through rush-hour traffic to get to the Jesuit Spirituality Center at Grand Coteau. 

Two hundred forty-seven laypersons who have devoted themselves to the work of the Catholic Church throughout the Archdiocese of New Orleans will be awarded the Order of St. Louis IX Medallion in ceremonies May 6.

I know that high school principals have souls. And those men and women who voted to have separate playoffs for public and non-public schools should be searching theirs to find an answer to the question: What were they thinking?

In July 2011, the Hulin family’s life forever changed when Erin Hulin Hall at age 21 contracted multiple sclerosis (MS). Her symptoms started on a small scale.

1685-Franciscan  Recollect Fathers -Missionaries 1722-Capuchin Franciscan Fathers 1725-Jesuit Fathers/Brothers- Currently ministering: 25 priests and 3 brothers in education, retreats, preaching

One hundred one years after her death, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, still keeps watch at Cabrini High School. Her presence has been highlighted in a permanent exhibit of her life in New Orleans on the school’s Esplanade Avenue campus. 

Once a magnet for Mass-goers and pilgrims from throughout the city and beyond, the 142-year-old Gothic chapel at St. Roch Cemetery No. 1 is undergoing a complete interior overhaul by the New Orleans Catholic Cemeteries Office.

He wrestled, played football and threw the javelin at Holy Cross, started at linebacker for the United States Military Academy at West Point, served 24 years in the Army, ran a school for troubled teens in Chicago and spent five years hauling hazardous chemicals 1 million miles throughout all 50 U.S. states and 10 Canadian provinces, sleeping at night behind the steering wheel in a 6-by-8-foot cab he had transformed into a rolling monastic chapel.

A change in state law regulating the Tuition Donation Rebate (TDR) Program allows individuals and companies to shift their state tax liability into an easy way to fund scholarships for children of low-income families to attend Catholic or other private schools, said Peter Quirk, development director for the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

With a chosen theme of “Strengthening the Fabric of Our Families” for 2018, the members of the Catholic Women in Action Giving Circle of The Catholic Foundation awarded $120,000 in grants April 26 to nine local nonprofits that focus on helping children and families.

On Sunday, May 6, you will bestow the Order of St. Louis Award on 247 people who have volunteered their service in parishes and ministries across the archdiocese. How special is this award?

El domingo, 6 de mayo, otorgará el Premio de la Orden de San Luis a 247 personas, que han ofrecido su servicio voluntario en parroquias y ministerios en toda la arquidiócesis. ¿Qué tan especial es este premio?

Academy of Our Lady Seniors Hailee Richard and Breanne Breaux were honored April 9 before the softball game against Ponchatoula High School at Penguin Park. Their teammates and family members reminisced and honored the seniors for their contribution to Academy of Our Lady’s softball program.

RCHBISHOP RUMMEL, Parent-Booster Club, monthly Rosary Prayer Group, May 8, 7:30 a.m. in the school chapel, 1901 Severn Ave., Metairie. Parents and grandparents are invited to attend. Coffee and donuts served after. 

The sacrament of baptism isn’t a good luck charm but a gift from God that enables Christians to overcome evil, Pope Francis said.  Those who receive the sacrament are given the strength to overcome “the temptation to separate from God, from his will, from communion with him (and) fall into the snares of worldly seductions,” the pope said April 25 during his weekly general audience. 

The draft-day hysteria began early when a reporter from the in-house NFL Network said the Saints were making calls to other teams about possibly trading up in the first round. Ian Rappaport reported that the Saints were interested in “likely a quarterback to be the heir apparent to Drew Brees.”