Visiting the small Catholic communities in Bulgaria and North Macedonia offered an opportunity to encourage the faithful to remember God’s miracle of being able to feed a multitude with just a few loaves and fishes, Pope Francis said.

INTERFAITH RAMADAN DINNER, May 23, 7 p.m., Loyola University New Orleans’ Danna Center St. Charles Room. Reception starts at 6:30 p.m. 6363 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans. Register at eventbrite.com/e/interfaith-ramadan-dinner-loyola-university-tickets-60169347137.

The 2019 Holy Spirit Novena, “Now More Than Ever, Come Holy Spirit, Come,” will be held May 31-June 8 at St. John of the Cross, 61030 Brier Lake Drive, Lacombe. Each evening, there will be praise and worship along with reconciliation at 6:30 p.m., and Mass celebrated at 7 p.m.

Do good and avoid evil.” This advice, while solid to be sure, provides little practical direction. Critics have suggested that the same might be said of the church’s teachings concerning business ethics.

Five St. Mary’s Dominican High School students were among 73 outstanding Hispanic scholars from 20 participating high schools in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes honored at the 2019 New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundations (NOHHF) scholars’ ceremony.

It is interesting what we remember about our moms. In the fall of 1969, I was a grade-school student at St. Jerome school in Kenner and had the following conversation with my mother. Me: “Mom, it’s the World Series, Orioles vs. Mets, and I am just not feeling well.”

As seniors walk across the stage, proudly brandishing their diplomas, and parents look on beaming from their seats, many will hear from commencement speakers about change. At the end of each major educational phase, in uplifting motivational speeches, we hear of changes that occur as we move into a new juncture in our lives.

Don’t get me wrong, I love gift-giving. But there have been times where I want to say “the heck with it!” and default to Amazon gift cards. Boom. Done. And better yet, send it electronically so that I don’t even have to waste time wrapping.

Josh Shapiro, the attorney general for the state of Pennsylvania, has used the burning of the Notre Dame Cathedral as an opportunity to write a column upbraiding U.S. bishops.

Jesus concludes today’s Gospel reading with the solemn statement, “The Father and I are one” (Jn 10:30). He means that he is everything the Father is, except that he is the Son, not the Father. He, the Son, has become the human being Jesus of Nazareth, without ceasing to be everything that he is as God.

Neither inclement weather nor an elite field of athletes could overcome what a pair of local Catholic school seniors had in store for them.

I’m sorry, the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now!” In 2017, this line from Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” completely changed her image from a sweet, good girl to a villainous snake.

On May 18 at St. Louis Cathedral, five seminarians of the Archdiocese of New Orleans will be ordained as transitional deacons – the final step before ordination to the priesthood. The ordinands are Sylvester Adoga, Luis Duarte, Dennis Obienu, Luis Valencia and John Yike. The Ordination Mass will be live-streamed at nolacatholic.org.

On May 18 at St. Louis Cathedral, five seminarians of the Archdiocese of New Orleans will be ordained as transitional deacons – the final step before ordination to the priesthood. The ordinands are Sylvester Adoga, Luis Duarte, Dennis Obienu, Luis Valencia and John Yike. The Ordination Mass will be live-streamed at nolacatholic.org.

In recent months the business world has been rocked with a money-laundering case that will result in one of the world’s largest banks headquartered in the European Union having to pay $1.5 billion in fines; a $4.2 billion fraud case involving a sovereign wealth fund in Southeast Asia; a price-collusion case in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry where a 539% price increase was revealed for a popular antifungal skin cream; and a case where the world’s social media titan was found to have leaked private information of subscribers to a political consultancy agency.

On May 18 at St. Louis Cathedral, five seminarians of the Archdiocese of New Orleans will be ordained as transitional deacons – the final step before ordination to the priesthood. The ordinands are Sylvester Adoga, Luis Duarte, Dennis Obienu, Luis Valencia and John Yike. The Ordination Mass will be live-streamed at nolacatholic.org.

In the current Louisiana Legislative session, our state lawmakers have the opportunity to take the historic step of ending the death penalty in Louisiana, the most draconian of all punishments which violates the dignity and sanctity of human life and diminishes us all.

God never tricks, traps or tempts his children to sin or commit evil, Pope Francis said. God is with his people every step of the way – during times of joy and sadness, triumph and tribulation – and he always helps lead people away from the devil and his temptations, the pope said during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square May 1, the feast of St. Joseph the Worker.

Andi Oney’s life was forever changed when, more than 30 years ago as a teenager growing up in Chauvin, Louisiana, in the Houma-Thibodaux Diocese, she prayed for a fuller release of the Holy Spirit, deeper than what she had already received at baptism and confirmation.

On May 18 at St. Louis Cathedral, five seminarians of the Archdiocese of New Orleans will be ordained as transitional deacons – the final step before ordination to the priesthood. The ordinands are Sylvester Adoga, Luis Duarte, Dennis Obienu, Luis Valencia and John Yike. The Ordination Mass will be live-streamed at nolacatholic.org.