• Bensons’ philanthropy touches the hungry
    Bensons’ philanthropy touches the hungry
    by Site Administrator
    On the anniversary of her husband’s death, New Orleans Saints and Pelicans owner Gayle Benson visited Second Harvest Food Bank March 15 to announce a $3.5 million donation from the Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation – the largest in the food bank’s 37-year history – earmarked for badly needed infrastructure repairs to the organization’s massive warehouse.
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  • Our church has become larger – and stronger
    Our church has become larger – and stronger
    by Site Administrator
    Last week, you welcomed 331 women, men and children who will enter the Catholic Church in their parishes at the Easter Vigil. Why was this “Rite of Election” so important and why should we be so joyful?
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  • Successful marriage is like making a gumbo
    Successful marriage is like making a gumbo
    by Site Administrator
    The weekend after Thanksgiving, like many New Orleanians, I typically prepare gumbo. From the turkey leftovers, I trim off the remaining meat, make a homemade broth and splurge on Andouille sausage.
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  • At 93, Harry Connick Sr. is being moved by the Spirit
    At 93, Harry Connick Sr. is being moved by the Spirit
    by Site Administrator
    Harry Connick Sr. will be 93 on March 27, and now that he’s all grown up, he feels as though he may have discovered what he wants to do with his life. For 30 years – from 1973 to 2003 – Connick was the Orleans Parish District Attorney, a pressurized cauldron that forced him to confront society in its darkest moments. In 1994, a virulent drug war that created a turf battle, led to 424 murders in New Orleans, the most in the city’s history.
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  • Confession widely available on three consecutive Wednesdays
    Confession widely available on three consecutive Wednesdays
    by Site Administrator
    The Archdiocese of New Orleans will offer the sacrament of confession in every church parish on three consecutive Wednesday evenings (March 27, April 3 and April 10) from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Archbishop Gregory Aymond said he hoped the wide availability of confession would aid Catholics on their Lenten journey.
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  • What are we missing by not taking time to reflect?
    What are we missing by not taking time to reflect?
    by Site Administrator
    I found myself sitting on a bench in the middle of campus. A break in the midst of the 10-minute walk between my office and classroom. The heaviness of my belly, even this early on, has already begun to slow me down.
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  • Raising Catholic daughters in the age of #MeToo
    Raising Catholic daughters in the age of #MeToo
    by Site Administrator
    There have been a great many revelations, incidents and trends over the past two years that I have watched with shock and awe, and, honestly, horror. There has been so much that has made me want to take my precious little ones, true blessings from God, and hide them away from the big, scary world.
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  • Bridging the Orthodox-Catholic gap requires dialogue
    Bridging the Orthodox-Catholic gap requires dialogue
    by Site Administrator
    It takes courage to stand before people different from yourself and speak. Especially if you intend on offering them suggestions for improvement.
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  • Select school basketball makes last stand in L.C.
    Select school basketball makes last stand in L.C.
    by Site Administrator
    Bye bye, Lake Charles. Adios, Burton Coliseum. The select schools’ Division I basketball championship  will see no more of you.
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  • Éste es mi Hijo, mi elegido; escúchenle
    Éste es mi Hijo, mi elegido; escúchenle
    by Jonelle Foltz
    Queridos hermanos: El camino hacia la Pascua, como el de nuestra propia vida, puede resultarnos en ciertos momentos arduo de recorrer y necesitamos hacer un alto para recobrar fuerzas. El Evangelio de este segundo domingo de Cuaresma nos invita a abandonar la aridez y las dificultades del desierto, que veíamos el domingo pasado.
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  • List of summer camps and activities for 2019
    List of summer camps and activities for 2019
    by Site Administrator
    CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY/MIDDLE SCHOOL DAY CAMPS (operated by individual schools or church parishes) (504) area code unless noted
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  • Bl. Seelos, St. Joseph, St. Frances Cabrini lifted her up
    Bl. Seelos, St. Joseph, St. Frances Cabrini lifted her up
    by Beth Donze
    Miracles – some pretty hefty ones – have rocked Karen Hubert Ursin’s life from Day One. As a newborn, Ursin was baptized in the hospital because her doctors were concerned her O-negative blood type – seen as a potential death sentence in 1955 – was working against her little body.
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  • Our Father in (the struggle of) faith
    Our Father in (the struggle of) faith
    by Site Administrator
    Today’s first reading is about as distant from us as anything in the Bible. The focus is on a man named Abram, or Abraham, who grew up in Ur, a city that went out of existence more than 2,000 years ago. The episode features a ceremony practiced by ancient kings, which involved walking between two rows of bloody animal carcasses.
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  • Those catfish fillets never had a chance
    Those catfish fillets never had a chance
    by Site Administrator
    The Lenten fish fry season got off to a hot start March 8 as dozens of parishes throughout the Archdiocese of New Orleans ignited their deep fryers to provide seafood dinners for the multitudes.
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  • Ronald G. Burke named ‘Hibernian of the Year’
    Ronald G. Burke named ‘Hibernian of the Year’
    by Site Administrator
    Since 1876, the Ancient Order of Hibernians has been in Louisiana “to support the Catholic Church and the Irish (people, country and culture),” said James “Jimmy” Kuhn, state president of the Order of Hibernians and a retired judge.
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  • Pope: God’s kingdom comes through gentleness, not force
    Pope: God’s kingdom comes through gentleness, not force
    by Site Administrator
    The kingdom of God is being established slowly in the world through patience and gentleness and not by violence or force, Pope Francis said. Jesus’ petition for his father’s kingdom to come “is not a threat at all; on the contrary, it is a happy announcement, a message of joy,” the pope said March 6 during his weekly general audience.
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  • La Iglesia, se suma a la coalición de la campaña antidrogas
    La Iglesia, se suma a la coalición de la campaña antidrogas
    by Jonelle Foltz
    Parece que, hemos estado en una guerra “por siempre” contra las drogas, pero el número de víctimas que cobran las drogas, parece aumentar cada año. ¿Hay algo que la arquidiócesis pueda hacer para tomar una posición significativa?
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  • Calendar – March 16, 2019
    Calendar – March 16, 2019
    by Jonelle Foltz
    St. Thomas Catholic Church/Assumption of Our Lady Mission, fourth annual altar, March 17, noon, beginning with reenactment of Tupa Tupa (knock on doors of Holy Family), followed by the blessing of the altar and meals served to visitors with bags filled with cookies, a St. Joseph card and medal, bread and a lucky bean. 6951 Hwy. 39, Braithwaite.
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  • The radical call of Lent
    The radical call of Lent
    by Jonelle Foltz
    Imagine you’re sitting in front of your doctor, and he says that your health definitely needs to improve.  He then looks you square in the eyes and says, “If you wish to live a healthy long life, you must stop eating junk food and living a sedentary lifestyle, and start eating plenty of healthy foods and exercise every day.”
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  • Ash Wednesday thankfulness – on Mardi Gras
    Ash Wednesday thankfulness – on Mardi Gras
    by Site Administrator
    Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday came into sacred juxtaposition this year when Rex – Robert Boh – stopped in front of 2525 St. Charles Ave. to chat with and toast William Grace Jr., who reigned as Rex in 2002. Just two weeks earlier, the Montgomery-Grace House, home to four kings of Carnival since 1907, was gutted in a seven-alarm fire.
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