The law is a path and “may the Lord help people walk along the path of the Ten Commandments, however, by looking at Christ’s love, the encounter with Christ, knowing that the encounter with Jesus is more important than all the commandments,” he said. - (Excerpt)

Charles Hagerman has a message for anyone who has lived for years trapped by alcohol or substance abuse: There is help! Hagerman knows all about a God of mercy.

Archbishop Aymond gives his pastoral care amid the latest COVID spike.

“The alarm bells are deafening,” he further warned. “And the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.

Heather Bozant Witcher, mother of three small children, decided to no longer fret as her twins developed at different rates. She is now enjoying each moment with them.

Pope Francis declared: “The use of atomic energy for purposes of war is immoral, just as the possessing of nuclear weapons is immoral, as I already said two years ago. We will be judged on this” (see: https://cutt.ly/Ne1emEG).

Pope Francis wrote the homily for the first World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly Mass July 25 in St. Peter's Basilica, celebrated by Archbishop Rino Fisichella. “Let us protect them, so that nothing of their lives and dreams may be lost. May we never regret that we were insufficiently attentive to those who loved us and gave us life."

Archbishop Aymond says music creates a sacred atmosphere for the Mass that helps Catholics lifts their hearts and mind to God.

A new wave of COVID-19 creates challenges for the school year, but Dr. RaeNell Houston says teachers, administrators, parents and students will rise to the challenge.

It's far past time for Louisiana residents resistant to being vaccinated for COVID-19 to roll up their sleeves – for their own health and the health of their loved ones.

Diamond Flowers, a senior at Cabrini High School, shares her experience participating in FaithActs, a program of Loyola University New Orleans which helps students become leaders in the field of environmental science and its connection with faith.

Humanitarian focus: “Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe,” according to the International Rescue Committee. Catholic Relief Services reports, “Conflict and a lack of aid (leaves) 80 percent of the population in need of assistance, including 2 million children suffering from acute malnutrition."

What happens when the bathroom scale continues to lie? Either capitulate to its soulless mocking or commit to fighting back. Clarion Herald editor Peter Finney Jr. chose to fight the good fight.

Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards died July 12 at the age of 93. He was a skilled politician beset by personal failures, but he could have been so much more.

"We expect the local phase of the synod discernment, which will be coordinated by Father Colm Cahill, our director of strategic planning, to run from October through April 2022, at which time we will forward our report to the USCCB ..." Archbishop Gregory Aymond

Pope Francis inspiringly writes, “I very much desire that, in this time that we are given to live, recognizing the dignity of every human person, we can revive among all a worldwide aspiration to fraternity.”

NOLA Catholic Parenting's Sarah McDonald shares the importance of living our faith, persevering to rise above life's many challenges, and thereby setting good examples of the path toward constant growth for our children.

Shannon and Evans Schmidt lost one of their seven children in a boating accident. Now they are honoring their son by making Catholic education possible for at-risk kids.

Christian men are the pillars of their families ⎼ and the vocation of fatherhood, whether physical or spiritual, is vitally important today. Press on in the good fight - Happy Father's Day!

"Even now, when most of life has reopened, we – as parents to three under age 2 – remain cautious." Everyone needs to have the good highlighted to encourage positivity.