• Dominican students learn ‘Diversity in Action’
    Dominican students learn ‘Diversity in Action’
    It’s 3 p.m. on a weekday, and students from nearby elementary schools begin pouring into the Dominican Peace Center in Gert Town for free help with homework...
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  • 2nd Sunday of Lent: Do not be afraid
    2nd Sunday of Lent: Do not be afraid
    When World War II broke out in 1939, Karol Wojtyla, the future St. John Paul II, had just turned 19.
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  • St. Joseph altar is a promise kept for two decades
    St. Joseph altar is a promise kept for two decades
    Dr. Ann Logarbo remembers clearly the day  she promised to prepare an annual St. Joseph altar. On her day off, she drove from her St. Tammany Parish home to visit her mother, Mary Cefalu, in Amite.
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  • Chief Justice Roberts responds to Sen. Schumer’s remarks
    Chief Justice Roberts responds to Sen. Schumer’s remarks
    Chief Justice John Roberts, accustomed to writing in-depth opinions on court cases, penned a rare statement March 4 denouncing remarks made earlier that day by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer...
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  • Indoor meet a warm-up for spring
    Indoor meet a warm-up for spring
    In preparation for the start of the 2020 outdoor track and field season, many of Louisiana’s best high school runners, jumpers and throwers converged on the Carl Maddox Fieldhouse on Feb. 22...
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  • Facebook page offers glimpse of priesthood
    Facebook page offers glimpse of priesthood
    The archdiocesan Vocations Office has launched the first in a series of six videos for the Fridays of Lent that illuminate vocations in the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
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  • Parish, school fish fries hit the spot for Lenten Fridays
    Parish, school fish fries hit the spot for Lenten Fridays
    The following is an alphabetical listing of fish fries at churches and schools across the Archdiocese of New Orleans throughout Lent.
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  • Pope has common cold, unrelated to other illnesses
    Pope has common cold, unrelated to other illnesses
    Pope Francis has a common cold and has no symptoms that could be attributed to another illness, the Vatican said.
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  • A divided court examines La. abortion restrictions
    A divided court examines La. abortion restrictions
    In oral arguments March 4, the Supreme Court justices expressed mixed views about a Louisiana law that requires abortion providers...
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  • Lenten missions, events at local Catholic parishes
    Lenten missions, events at local Catholic parishes
    List of Lenten missions and events at local Catholic parishes.
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  • Separated, divorced Catholics are true family members
    Separated, divorced Catholics are true family members
    Not only is there a misconception about where separated and divorced Catholics fit into the Catholic Church, but also those who are separated and divorced often don’t want to talk about their experiences of alienation from the church. 
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  • Parents: Are you really listening to your children?
    Parents: Are you really listening to your children?
    Every day, I pick up my kids from school, and they jump into the car ready to go on about their day – how exciting the day was...
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  • Life’s moments are fleeting – cherish each one
    Life’s moments are fleeting – cherish each one
    In my neighborhood, I recognized the tell-tale signs of the slender green shoots of daffodils and the broad leaves of tulips popping up from the ground. 
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  • Purple Knights earned their place in league tradition
    Purple Knights earned their place in league tradition
    It has been nine years since St. Augustine last won a state basketball championship.
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  • Shut off cellphone, open Bible for Lent, pope tells audience
    Shut off cellphone, open Bible for Lent, pope tells audience
    Lent is a time to remove all distractions and bitterness from one’s life to better hear God and those who suffer silently and need help, Pope Francis said
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  • Police arrest man for smashing 41 car windows at Notre Dame Seminary
    Police arrest man for smashing 41 car windows at Notre Dame Seminary
    New Orleans police today announced the arrest of one of the four alleged perpetrators in the early-morning Feb. 28 vandalism attack in which the windows of 41 cars parked at Notre Dame Seminary were smashed.
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  • He picked up the Clarion Herald, and it saved his life
    He picked up the Clarion Herald, and it saved his life
    Gary LeBlanc was sitting in a chair outside a priest’s office. His life had cratered. His marriage was about as down the drain as the morning coffee grounds. 
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  • Rite of Election, times two; new Catholics coming soon
    Rite of Election, times two; new Catholics coming soon
    Liz Hart, swaddling her 1-month-old son Beau, greets Archbishop Gregory Aymond at the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion ceremony March 1 at St. Joseph Church on Tulane Avenue.
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  • Spiritual direction can help us discern God’s will
    Spiritual direction can help us discern God’s will
    ​​​​​​​Lent is a time when many Catholics examine their spiritual lives and try to do something that will deepen their faith.
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  • Way of the Cross in Carrara marble
    Way of the Cross in Carrara marble
    Fourteen arched plaques inside the nave of St. Stephen Church in New Orleans escort the faithful from Christ’s sentencing in Pilate’s praetorium to his burial in a torch-lit cave.
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