Fr. James Wehner calls his 10 years as rector-president of Notre Dame Seminary his most "grace-filled" assignment: Nearly 200 priests formed – and one Muses' shoe caught.

Five schools in East St. Tammany work together to give high school seniors a safe graduation night party, complete with prizes.

“Do not hide old age, do not hide the fragility of old age.” -- Pope Francis

Events across the archdiocese from June 10-July 16, 2022 Please send event announcements two weeks before each issue to calendar@clarionherald.org

The archdiocesan entities that care for independent seniors as well as the infirm are ready to protect them in a hurricane. Also, updates on NOLA hurricane protection.

Archbishop Gregory Aymond celebrated a special Mass June 1 at St. Rita Church in New Orleans to honor 83 Altar Servers of the Year in the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

Tulane is calling on local churches to participate in the CHERISH study to improve caridovascular health in minority communities.

Miracle League baseball players enjoy a day of baseball with Brother Martin students.

Letter to the Clarion Herald regarding gun violence

Archbishop Gregory Aymond will ordain 16 men as permanent deacons for the Archdiocese of New Orleans on June 25 at St. Louis Cathedral.

For the last two years, Father Otis Young, pastor of St. Peter Church in Covington, has been an icon of faith and perseverance by celebrating Mass despite the after-effects of a stroke.

A tip of the cap to the graduating seniors from the 22 Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of New Orleans! They persevered through two years of the pandemic.

"Here is, as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story." - Ed Daniels

" ... each of us also needs to search our souls for ways that we can do more to understand this epidemic of evil and violence." - Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond, Archbishop of New Orleans

The LHSAA has nearly doubled the roster of what it considers "select" schools, meaning for the playoffs in four sports, it will be easier to fill out the select school brackets.

Fathers Jody DiMaggio, Andy Gonzalez, Lennin Arroyo Martinez, Jeffrey Merritt, William Mumphrey and Kesiena Dennis Obienu were ordained June 4 at St. Louis Cathedral.

Dominican Padre Manuel Solorzano gives his homily in Spanish for the weekend of June 4-5.

Dorothy “Dot” Henderson Booker and Mabel Beasley, two clients of Catholic Charities' Archdiocese of New Orleans' local PACE GNO (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly), just celebrated their 101st birthdays with family and friends.

The pope praised those elderly who can turn resentment “into a tenacity for awaiting God’s promises” because they are an example to the rest of the faith community about facing “the excesses of evil.”