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St. Catherine of Siena School in Metairie invited anti-bullying speaker Tom Thelen to talk to students, staff and parents Sept. 25.

One of the hallmarks of a Catholic school is what you don’t hear. More than a thousand students might be packed inside classrooms during the school day, but the sound of silence in the hallways is an unmistakable sign that education is in progress.

During his 37 years as the founding pastor of Holy Spirit Church in Algiers, 90-year-old Msgr. Allen Roy – who has always  preferred to be called “Father” Roy – discovered a great way of getting to know his parishioners on a first-name basis.

For the last 17 years, Kevin Charpentier and Sandra Junius have teamed up as wedding coordinators at St. Louis Cathedral, one of the world’s most recognizable Catholic churches and an icon of the City of New Orleans. The cathedral celebrates more than 100 weddings each year.

Local Catholics process around St. Rita Church in Harahan to begin the Oct. 5-11 Greater New Orleans Rosary Congress for Life, Reparation and Peace in Our City, Nation and World. The week-long Congress, in its 29th year, includes an hourly rosary, two Masses a day and 24-hour eucharistic adoration.

A person who claims to preach the Gospel by convincing people of their beliefs in Jesus is not evangelizing, but proselytizing, Pope Francis said.

It had been 50 years since a tri-parish high school football team in the highest classification entered the sixth week of the prep football season without having yielded a single touchdown.

In the South, we hold our traditions close to the heart. When it came time for Gabrielle Campo Hillman to get married on April 13, 2019, she already knew what dress she would wear – a hand-sewn gown first worn by her grandmother, Gayle Brack Kopelman, in 1961, and then by her mother, Tammy Kopelman Campo, in 1986.

Benedictine Abbot Justin Brown delivered the homily at the annual Red Mass – marking the start of the legal year – on Oct. 7 at St. Louis Cathedral, and he remined members of the legal profession they should be mindful of King Solomon’s request to God not for a long life or riches but for “a listening heart.”

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Synod of Bishops for the Amazon is a time of reflection, dialogue and listening to the needs and sufferings of indigenous people, Pope Francis said.

Catholic tradition affirms that responsible citizenship is a virtue, and participation in political life is a moral obligation. The leaders of the Catholic Church have the right and duty to share the Catholic Church’s teachings and to educate Catholics on moral dimensions of public life, so they may form their consciences in light of their faith. Additional guidance is available in the USCCB publication Faithful Citizenship at www.usccb.org/faithfulcitizenship.

La tradición Católica afirma que, la ciudadanía responsable es una virtud, y la participación en la vida política es una obligación moral. Los líderes de la Iglesia Católica  tienen el derecho y el deber de compartir las enseñanzas de la Iglesia Católica y, de educar a los Católicos sobre las dimensiones morales de la vida pública, para que puedan formar sus conciencias a la luz de su fe.

Queridos hermanos en el evangelio de este domingo resaltan dos aspectos muy importantes.  El primero es el milagro, la curación. No es casualidad que Jesús cure a unos leprosos. Es muy importante ver los tipos de enfermedad que cura Jesús. En este caso, curar a un leproso significa devolver a la sociedad al que había sido marginado y apartado. La lepra era entonces una enfermedad temida por lo contagiosa que se suponía que era. Eso hacía que las personas enfermas de lepra fuesen apartadas de la vida social y condenadas a la marginación total. Tanta era la marginación que en el lenguaje actual se dice de una persona que es como un leproso para expresar que esa persona es despreciada por las demás y que nadie quiere tener trato con ella.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – With its mandate to seek “new pathways for the church and for an integral ecology,” the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon follows Pope Francis’ call for the church to move forward without fear, Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes told participants.

Cabrini High School raised $650 in just a week to be sent to Catholic Relief Services (CRS) for emergency relief of the victims of Hurricane Dorian. Students, faculty, staff and parents participated in a bake sale hosted by Cabrini’s Student Council and CRS Krewe. The school also held daily collections during lunch in the cafeteria and a collection at a school Mass.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Too many Christians today are “as long as” Christians, obeying God “as long as” God and the church meet their conditions and criteria for what is acceptable, just and righteous, Pope Francis said.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Synod participants offered several proposals to address the lack of priests in the Amazon region, including revising the formation program for candidates to the priesthood and instituting new ministries for lay men and women.

St. Augustine High School announced today that assistant football coach Kenneth Dorsey Jr. has been named interim head football coach for the remainder of the 2019 football season. He replaces Nathaniel Jones who will no longer coach at the school.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Synod of Bishops for the Amazon is a time of reflection, dialogue and listening to the needs and sufferings of indigenous people, Pope Francis said.