• Jesuit mission is simple: Follow Jesus more closely
    Jesuit mission is simple: Follow Jesus more closely
    On July 31, the Feast of St. Ignatius, I will become the provincial of the USA Central and Southern Province of the Society of Jesus.
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  • Why would God who carried us through Katrian, abandon us now?
    Why would God who carried us through Katrian, abandon us now?
    The first six months of the year have presented all of us with challenges unlike we have ever faced.
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  • El que tenga oídos, que oiga
    El que tenga oídos, que oiga
    El evangelio de este domingo, nos confronta con uno de los grandes misterios de la vida humana: el problema del mal.
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  • Practice, it is to be hoped, makes perfect at Loyola
    Practice, it is to be hoped, makes perfect at Loyola
    When Tania Tetlow, a New Orleans native, took over in May 2018 as the first lay president of Loyola University New Orleans, she knew part of her job description would be serving as the CEO – Chief Emergency Officer.
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  • Opening the new year with safety, love in mind
    Opening the new year with safety, love in mind
    This is an unprecedented time. Our new reality, featuring COVID 19, presents a number of significant challenges.
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  • Bonine: LHSAA is committed to athletes’ safety
    Bonine: LHSAA is committed to athletes’ safety
    LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine told the House Education Committee July 13 that the association never said it would cancel its sports seasons.
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  • St. Timothy Award bestowed upon 23 Catholic teens
    St. Timothy Award bestowed upon 23 Catholic teens
    “I am delighted and filled with hope when I see the many ways in which you give of yourselves so charitably in your faith community throughout our archdiocese,” Archbishop Aymond told the award winners.
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  • When human life is utilitarian calculus, anything can happen
    When human life is utilitarian calculus, anything can happen
    The death of Michael Hickson, a 46-year-old quadriplegic, inside an Austin, Texas, hospice last month pricked the conscience of Charlie Camosy.
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  • Get out your cameras! Cemeteries photo contest accepting entries through Aug. 10
    Get out your cameras! Cemeteries photo contest accepting entries through Aug. 10
    New Orleans Catholic Cemeteries are photogenic places. Enter your favorite snaps...
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  • Family is more than blood relatives at Ursuline
    Family is more than blood relatives at Ursuline
    Family is not exclusively  our blood relatives. Each of us is created individually as a different thread and sewn together through what we experience. Thus, our family can extend beyond our nuclear family.
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  • 'Microplastics' uncovered by ASH documentary team
    'Microplastics' uncovered by ASH documentary team
    Microplastics – pieces of plastic smaller than several millimeters – have been found even in human tissue because they have become part of the global food supply.
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  • In sports exile, Legion baseball offers outdoor excursion
    In sports exile, Legion baseball offers outdoor excursion
    No one knows for sure what’s going to happen to high school sports. We can’t move on to Phase 3 of the recovery if the virus continues to spread to our young people.
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  • Making a Difference:True freedom leads to healthy patriotism
    Making a Difference:True freedom leads to healthy patriotism
    As I write, it is July 4, Independence Day in the United States.
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  • God's incredible generosity shines through adoption
    God's incredible generosity shines through adoption
    (God) has not forgotten us but set aside a unique child (or children) for us, just as he does for every couple blessed with pregnancies.
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  • Women's Giving Circle funds youth development
    Women's Giving Circle funds youth development
    Over the past five years, the Women’s Giving Circle has awarded $711,500 in grants. 
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  • Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Spirit in us
    Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Spirit in us
    By saying, “If by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live,” Paul invites us to believe in the power of God’s Spirit to enable us to change for the better. So let us believe!
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  • Never compare, because no two children are alike
    Never compare, because no two children are alike
    Comparison is the thief of joy. On my social media accounts this week, that’s the message that kept repeating itself. 
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  • Teaching children about race relations begins at home
    Teaching children about race relations begins at home
    The lives of little ones will be shaped by what we show them and tell them.
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  • Race barriers can shatter with common cause
    Race barriers can shatter with common cause
    It seems the best way to break down the artificial barriers in our society is to find common cause with people who may be different from us but who share the same concerns and desire for a better future for our neighborhoods, our state and church!
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  • Church has battled, been marred by the stain of racism
    Church has battled, been marred by the stain of racism
    As true Catholics, let us continue to pray for the church, our country and our world that we will see our call to work for true peace and justice and transform the world by disseminating God’s love.
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