The rule change is for one year, but it’s hard to see the NFL going back after upgrading what can be reviewed in instant replay. Saints head coach Sean Payton pushed for the change, one that would have allowed the obvious “no-call” on pass interference against the Rams in the NFC Championship Game to be reviewed and reversed.

Pope Francis presented the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross to an elderly Italian missionary sister who dedicated her life to caring for mothers as a midwife in Congo, delivering more than 3,000 babies.

Scotlandville High School had the speed and timing to outscore eight other track teams at the Brother Martin-sponsored Crusader Relays at Tad Gormley Stadium on March 27.

Last summer, as lifeguards at the Slidell Community Pool, Patrick Kelly and Patrick Carroll saved the life of a young boy. “He basically didn’t have a pulse, and we brought him back to life,” said Kelly, a current senior at Pope John Paul II High School in Slidell.

A room packed with mostly out-of-towners interested in Creole Italian cuisine listened to native New Orleanian Jyl Benson regale them with the colorful history of New Orleans cooking as they sampled olive salad and Creole red gravy at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum (SoFAB).

Pictured above: Sister of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Evelyn Okoye shares her vocational “glossary” during a recent panel discussion at St. Mary’s Dominican High School. (Photo by Beth Donze)

Drawing on the example of the prodigal son, who came to his senses after debasing himself, Father John Asare-Dankwah told dozens of priests and women and men religious celebrating their jubilees March 31 that, just as the father in Jesus’ parable, they must always welcome the marginalized in their ministries.

ST. JOSEPH SEMINARY COLLEGE, free student recital, featuring seminarians, April 7, 2 p.m., outdoors near the new Rouquette Library fountain. Performances will include vocal and instrumental works composed by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert and more. A reception with light snacks and beverages, and tours of the Rouquette Library recently built at the seminary. 75376 River Road in Covington.

Every weekend, those residing at Ozanam Inn on Camp Street can receive help for toothaches or physical problems from medical students and interns at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and Tulane Medical Center, as well as LSU School of Dentistry students.

Matt Fradd, 35, a native of Australia, has a simple proposition: Since the world has changed, parents need to recognize that and take action. One of the world’s foremost Catholic experts on the scourge of pornography, Fradd was 12 years old when his life spiraled out of control. He spent a lot of time at the rural home of his best friend, whose mom would supply them with hard liquor and allow them to watch pornographic videos.

Aprincipios de esta semana, en la Iglesia de St. Rita en Nueva Orleáns, usted celebró la Misa y, otorgó los premios al Servidor del Altar del Año, a 79 Servidores del Altar, de Parroquias de toda la archidiócesis. ¿Podría hablar de la importancia de este reconocimiento?

Louisiana is beginning its season of spring and summer festivals. That also means the 2018-19 high school sports calender is running out of dates. This is also the time of the year that various sports halls of fame are either taking shape or about to hold their inductions. I have been fortunate to be affiliated with five as a member of the selection committees or as an inductee in four.

Archbishop Gregory Aymond, the metropolitan archbishop of the New Orleans Province, which encompasses the state of Louisiana, was appointed April 3 by Pope Francis as apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Alexandria while that diocese awaits the appointment of a new bishop.

Queridos hermanos: en este final de la Cuaresma, a punto ya de entrar con Jesús en Jerusalén y revivir con Él su misterio pascual, la liturgia insiste en el tema de la misericordia y nos presenta una escena terrible donde una mujer está a punto de ser linchada.

Seventh-grade students from The Good Shepherd School joined St. Michael’s students March 29 for a double treat – performing the Stations of the Cross in St. Michael’s gym and then working with St. Michael’s students on making large impressions of the miraculous medal, transferred to aluminum foil.

NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS) – Norman C. Francis, who served as president of Xavier University of Louisiana for 47 years and has been a prominent voice in the civil rights movement for decades, will receive the University of Notre Dame’s 2018 Laetare Medal at the school’s graduation ceremony May 19.

Earlier this week at St. Rita Church in New Orleans, you celebrated Mass and awarded the Altar Server of the Year awards to 79 altar servers from parishes across the archdiocese. Can you talk about the importance of this recognition? The Serra Clubs of New Orleans have sponsored this recognition of Altar Servers of the Year for decades, and it’s always a delightful and joyful occasion for me.