Events from August 6-29, 2023 Please send event announcements two weeks before each issue to calendar@clarionherald.org NEXT ISSUE: August 19, 2023

First-year football official Todd Golemi, left, and veteran line judge Scott Senner discuss content of the guide book at a recent meeting of the Greater New Orleans Football Officials Association at Ecole Classique School. Photo by Ron Brocato | CLARION HERALD

" ... planning and preparing for a productive and fruitful year. ... (and will) welcome students and parents as we begin the 2023-24 academic year ... (and) students and families into PSR, RCIA and RCIC programs." - Dr. RaeNell Houston

Women can now experience Ignatian spirituality in silent weekend retreats through "Women of Manresa" at The Cenacle on the Lake in Metairie.

Xavier University of Louisiana's Center for Equity, Justice and the Human Spirit (CEJHS) hosts a panel of educators that discusses how best to teach to Black students in Catholic schools.

Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory presided over the opening Mass for the 13th National Black Catholic Congress on July 21 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

A new, enlarged chapel at Archbishop Shaw in Marrero will beckon students to increase their faith.

In a brave new world where ChatGPT can spit out an essay on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” in seconds, educators are wondering how to ID the true owner of the work.

Effective Aug. 1, 2023, Sacred Heart Brother Ronald (Ron) Travers has been appointed executive director of the Office of Religious.

Latasha LaBostrie Skidmore is the new principal of St. Katharine Drexel Prep.

Events in the Archdiocese of New Orleans from July 23-Sept. 23, 2023 Please send event announcements two weeks before each issue to calendar@clarionherald.org NEXT ISSUE: August 5, 2023

Jesuit cross country coach Cullen Doody and St. Scholastica swim coach Chris Prator have been selected as the Allstate Sugar Bowl’s Prep Coaches of the Year.

54 men and women identified by their alma maters as exemplars of the values taught in Catholic schools were honored recently by the archdiocese.

The Sacred Heart Brothers and Congregation of St. Joseph sisters decided to share resources in a common residence.

Become a House of Peace and pray for your neighbor. This effort, begun by Dean and HollyKem Sunseri, hopes to take back New Orleans from violence one block at a time.

The largest, Black Catholic fraternal organization in the world held its national convention in New Orleans and included all its divisions and the Ladies Auxiliary.

An Ursuline Academy elective, STEM for Others, had students learning how to construct a boat sail and then donating it to a subsistence fisherman in Haiti.

CYO Youth Ministers Forum will be held Aug. 19 from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Benedictine Father Gregory Boquet was elected the sixth abbot of the Benedictine community of St. Joseph Abbey on July 14.

Academy of Our Lady’s campers and children who attend sporting events at the Marrero high school have a beautiful new space in which to play.