The Harry Tompson Center, which provides life-saving day services and support to more than 5,000 homeless individuals annually, will hold its 2019 gala March 23 at the Academy of Sacred Heart Nims Fine Arts Center, 4301 St. Charles Ave., from 6:30 to 10 p.m. The theme will be “Harry Says Aloha!”

Prayer is not just a private and intimate dialogue between a person and God, but rather an opportunity for Christians to bring the needs of others before the Lord, Pope Francis said. “There is no room for individualism in the dialogue with God,” the pope said Feb. 13 during his weekly general audience. “There is no display of one’s own problems as if we were the only ones in the world who suffer. There is no prayer raised to God that is not the prayer of a community of brothers and sisters.”

March 6-10, 2019 EVENTS; ST. PETER CHURCH, Covington, Ash Wednesday, March 6, Mass times with distribution of ashes 6:30 and 8:30 a.m., and 7 p.m. At noon, a distribution of ashes during a Liturgy of the Word only. Details, (985) 892-2422.

It is shaping up as a banner year for LSU sports. Men’s basketball is poised for a long run in the NCAA Tournament; the baseball team is expected to reach Omaha and compete for a College World Series title; and the football team won 10 games for the first time since 2013, including a New Year’s Six bowl.

Get out your cameras, kids (and adults)! From April 1-June 30, the New Orleans Catholic Cemeteries Office will be sponsoring a photo contest open to shutterbugs ages 9 and older.

Pope Francis said his recent visit to the United Arab Emirates, while brief, was a new page in relations between Christians and Muslims at a time when conflict and violence threaten the goal of lasting peace.

Southern League President Lori Webb quickly threw water on the notion that a Double-A team from that league would be headed to Zephyr Field to take the place of the Triple-A New Orleans Baby Cakes.

As Catholic parents, we all strive to raise children that embody and embrace our religion in acts and deed. We want them to do their best to live their faith every day and serve others.

Queridos hermanos: en este domingo el evangelista Lucas nos pone en contacto con su versión de las Bienaventuranzas, uno de los textos más impresionantes de la historia de la humanidad, por el que muchos han dado su vida y por el que otros han detestado al cristianismo y a Jesús de Nazaret. 

Realizing that nothing but joy comes from a circle of dough doused in purple, green and gold sugar, Miesha Juluke had a great idea. Why not set up a chain delivery of king cakes – New Orleans’ most famous icebreaker – as a fun way in which Catholic schools across the archdiocese could get to know one another better?

A wonderful souvenir came out of St. Philip Neri’s salute to New Orleans’ 300th birthday. When members of the middle school faculty were asked to create a New Orleans-centered project for their students within their respective subject areas, reading teacher Melissa Kessler decided to ask her students to submit a beloved family recipe and a paragraph on why the dish was so special.

Four local Catholic high schools received St. Valentine’s Day gifts from the Louisiana High School Athletic Association: Each other. When the girls’ Division II select playoffs will have begun on Feb. 14, St. Scholastica will be hosting northshore rival Archbishop Hannan, while the Academy of Our Lady opens the bi-district round at home against De La Salle.

WASHINGTON (CNS) – The U.S. Supreme Court blocked a Louisiana law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals Feb. 7.

Changes in health care in the U.S. have placed an even higher priority on physician assistants, health care professionals who are licensed and trained to diagnose and treat illness and to prescribe medication for patients while working with a physician.

Almost immediately after the silvers, blacks and golds of the celebratory artifacts of New Year were put into the clearance aisle of stores, the pinks and reds of Valentine’s Day made their appearance. 

Lent is coming. So is the salvation of many a harried Catholic couple with three or four mouths to feed on a seafood-only Friday night – the parish fish fry.

Sacred Heart of Jesus Sister Emily Iyelumi (lead photo) reads from the Book of Malachi at the Feb. 9 World Day for Consecrated Life Mass at Mount Carmel Academy.

When Brandon Bonvillain realized his favorite childhood haunt lacked a dedicated space in which to honor deceased and living veterans of the armed forces, he decided Lafreniere Park would make the perfect site for his Eagle Scout project.

So, tell me again why the parents and schoolmates of New Orleans area high school wrestlers had to drive 349 miles for 5 hours, 26 minutes, to Bossier in order to watch their athletes perform in the state wrestling championship tournament?

For as long as she can remember, Louise Jandura has enjoyed taking things apart and putting them back together again. Little did the young Jandura know then that her childhood passion for figuring out “how things work” would lead her to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and launch a career that has excited her for nearly 30 years: as a top engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) – designing, building and testing machinery that gets sent into space.