Approximately 20 high school juniors and seniors from throughout Louisiana, Kentucky, Texas and California participated June 15-19 in the fourth annual FaithActs Summer Youth Theology Institute

After the twins contracted and beat the coronavirus, they were asked to donate their plasma to help save others’ lives. After all, their mother Nora, older sister Michelle and brother Julian also had tested positive. 

Ursuline Academy in New Orleans celebrated its Senior “Farewell” Mass May 1 without the seniors. For the first time in the school’s history, the Mass was televised virtually on Facebook Live.

Inspiring today’s youth to think about how to be tomorrow’s saints is what the Dead Theologians Society at Archbishop Shaw High School in Marrero is all about.

Local Catholic schoolchildren will learn about the Lenten actions of prayer, sacrifice and almsgiving ...

St. Angela’s Feast Day is a tradition through which Ursuline Academy lives out its motto of “Serviam” (“I will serve”).       

Students, faculty, staff, alumnae, women religious and other friends of the Academy of the Sacred Heart fanned out over eight non-profit sites....

A collaboration among  St. Mary’s Dominican High School’s Ecology and Stewardship Club, school alumnae and Ye Olde College Inn chef Baker Guevara....

VATICAN CITY (CNS) –  Pope Francis will issue a document on “young people, faith and vocational discernment” five months after the world Synod of Bishops gathered in October to discuss the topic.

Get out your cameras, kids (and adults)! From April 1-June 30, the New Orleans Catholic Cemeteries Office will be sponsoring a photo contest open to shutterbugs ages 9 and older.

As a campus minister and theology teacher since 2008 at Holy Cross High School – and having served for a few years as an assistant football coach – Adrian Jackson has a keen insight into what makes teenage boys tick.

The Clarion Herald posed the following three questions to students attending Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of New Orleans:  1. What teacher has had an impact on your life, and how did that happen?  2. What blessings have you received from your Catholic school education? Was there a challenging situation that your school (teachers or fellow students) helped you overcome?  3. How inspired have you been by the example of your parent(s) who have had to sacrifice in order to send you to Catholic school? The response was overwhelming. The Clarion Herald received about 150 submissions from across the archdiocese.  The next few pages speak of the beauty of Catholic education more simply and poignantly than just about anything else we could dream of. Thank you teachers, parents and students!

WASHINGTON, D.C. – They came in 10 busloads from the Archdiocese of New Orleans, praying the rosary, lifting up the sanctity of life and letting the world know that their young voices must be heard. More than 500 students from high schools in the archdiocese traveled to the nation’s capitol Jan. 15-20 to lend their voices to the 46th Annual March for Life, a rallying cry that is being promoted in stronger ways than ever by young people often stereotyped as self-absorbed and disengaged. “There’s no doubt, that if you talk to the majority of our young people today, they are pro-life,” Archbishop Gregory Aymond said before leading the archdiocesan contingent on the march along the National Mall. “It is my generation that was pro-choice. It’s my generation when Roe vs. Wade took place. “That was very dominant for a long time, but attitudes (toward unborn life) have changed, and I think that’s in large part due to the young church, the young adult church. They don’t just speak about pro-life. We have 500 people here who are willing to go to Washington and march and say they are pro-life.”

A contingent from Xavier University of Louisiana’s Concert Choir traveled from New Orleans to Philadelphia to honor, in song, St. Katharine Drexel, the Blessed Sacrament order founder who made their education possible by opening Xavier University in 1925.

On Sunday, Nov. 4, more than 1,500 young people from around the Archdiocese of New Orleans were called to be fearless in their faith at the 33rd annual World Youth Day held at the New Orleans Convention Center.

As the fall semester nears its end, my students working on their rebranding projects have begun their media campaigns in earnest. This semester, more than any other, I’ve been surprised with the level of enthusiasm and effort put into the projects.

Baton Rouge Bishop Michael G. Duca, holding a reliquary that contains a drop of blood from St. John Paul II, and Archbishop Gregory Aymond blessed the new St. John Paul II House on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge on Oct. 24.

We brought home a new puppy recently, bringing an equal ratio of canines to humans. Life is never dull in our small household. It was a somewhat unexpected decision. But as with most things in life, when you know, you just know. These past six months have been something of a roller coaster. Continually, it seems, I’ve been reminded of the meaning of commitment. Commitment to my husband, my job, my family, my friends. The first two definitions listed for “commitment” at first seem contradictory. “The state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc.,” reads the initial entry. Directly below: “an engagement or obligation that restricts freedom of action.” Reading those definitions initially, I sided with the second one. Yes, I told myself after a particularly difficult emotional time in my marriage, this commitment has certainly restricted my own freedom.