By Joy Zainey, Contributing writer Clarion Herald Joy and Jay Zainey have three adult children – Margaret, 38; Christopher, 35; and Andrew, 29. Andrew has autism and is non-verbal, and the Zaineys have encountered challenges every step of the way, not the least being the sometimes cold reactions Joy and Jay get when Andrew is in public and makes loud noises.

By Clarion Herald Staff Two sisters of Mount Carmel were honored Nov. 4 in celebration of the anniversary of their religious professions at a Mass and lunch at the Mount Carmel Motherhouse in New Orleans.

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For approximately 30 years, Steve Scaffidi has been making films and videos in a wide variety of genres – from music videos early in his career to documentaries about Catholic teens traveling and gaining closeness to God in Medjugorje.

By Molly Howat, Contributing writer I distinctly remember the first time I attended Mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Trujillo, Honduras. My team and I had just arrived at the orphanage where we were to be working, having just finished Spanish school in Guatemala for three months.

By Peter Finney Jr. Sister of Mount Carmel Mary Ellen Wheelahan, the safe environment coordinator of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, has spent years studying online perils that can harm children. One of the online resources she discovered recently was provided by the World Congress on Child Dignity in the Digital World in Rome – https://childdignity2017.org .

It was to be a great home field advantage. The tailgating was to be fantastic. The parking plan to accommodate thousands of fans arriving at Yulman Stadium was to be extensive. Oh well. Four years after the new stadium opened, Tulane’s return to campus for football has been a dud.

While walking to class, I noticed a small cemetery of wooden crosses outside the building housing St. Louis University’s campus ministry. I paused for a moment and looked a bit closer before recalling that we were now in the month of November.

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“There is no ‘I’ in team,” is written next to Welles Crowther’s Nyack (N.Y.) High School 1995 yearbook picture, his mother Alison Crowther recently told the faculty and students at Brother Martin High School in New Orleans.

By Beth Donze There is significant therapeutic value in giving people the opportunity to tell their stories and have them heard by those who are willing to listen. Had I not attended “Made in the Image and Likeness of God,” the Archdiocese of New Orleans’ four-part discussion series based on Archbishop Alfred Hughes’ 2006 pastoral letter on racial harmony, I would never have been made aware of some very recent ways hearts had been crushed and lives upended by lingering racism in our community, and even inside our church.

In order to provide pastoral care for the people of God in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Archbishop Aymond has made the following appointment: Reverend Anthony McGinn, S.J., as Pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish, New Orleans, effective Jan. 1, 2018.

By Peter Finney Jr. Nearly 200 years ago – on March 19, 1818 – St. Philippine Duchesne and four other Religious of the Sacred Heart sailed on the “Rebecca” from France to New Orleans, embarking on a mission to spread the Gospel and educate girls and young women.

By Ron Brocato, Sports Two former CYO Tournament champions, West Jefferson and Cohen, pulled out of the December basketball classic and will be replaced by St. Stanislaus and St. Martin’s Episcopal School to fill the 16-team tournament bracket, tournament director Armand Bertin said.

Deadline: Submissions due Thursday (10 days before each issue) calendar@clarionherald.org (504) area code unless noted Nov. 15-Dec. 2 SCHOOLS ST. DOMINIC , Mothers’ Club of New Orleans, “How to Talk to Your Kids About Sexuality,” a presentation by Brian Butler, executive director of Dumb Ox Ministries, Nov. 15, 7:15 p.m., St. Dominic gym.

By Clarion Herald Staff During the weekend of Oct. 21-22, Second Harvest Food Bank received the single largest donation in the organization’s history from the Produce Marketing Association (PMA). Following the PMA Fresh Summit Convention in the Morial Convention Center, PMA exhibitors collectively donated more than 400,000 pounds of fresh produce and other food to Second Harvest.

El Arzobispo Gregory Aymond, se dirigió a miles de líderes docentes en la Arquidiócesis de Nueva Orleáns, el 6 de noviembre en “Un Día de Formación para Administradores y Docentes, de las Escuelas Católicas” en el Pontchartrain Center en Kenner.

By Pope Francis Like stained glass windows, the saints allow the light of God to permeate the darkness of sin in the world, Pope Francis said on the feast of All Saints. Just as light enters a church through multi-colored windows, the lives of saints shine forth “according to their own shade,” the pope said Nov. 1.

By Ron Brocato, Sports Members of the Greater New Orleans Football Officials Association take part in a community service project with the local Volunteers of America chapter by filling bags with personal hygiene items that the VOA will give to the city’s homeless.