• Outdoor Way of the Cross at St. Pius X geared to children, families
    Outdoor Way of the Cross at St. Pius X geared to children, families
    St. Pius X Church in New Orleans has found a creative and safe way to help families with their Lenten prayer during the ongoing pandemic.
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  • St. Charles Borromeo wraps parishioners in prayer
    St. Charles Borromeo wraps parishioners in prayer
    Parishioners of St. Charles Borromeo Church in Destrehan are hoping their simple gesture of prayerful solidarity and hope will unite people while they are physically separated from their churches...
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  • Notre Dame Health System opens isolation unit
    Notre Dame Health System opens isolation unit
    Notre Dame Health System will open a newly refurbished isolation unit to house residents from any of its three residential facilities who are exhibiting symptoms or have been confirmed with COVID-19 diagnoses.
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  • Second Harvest is there no matter what the crisis
    Second Harvest is there no matter what the crisis
    The closure of restaurants, bars and hotels due to the coronavirus outbreak has created a new group of individuals needing food...
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  • Northshore helpers respond to seniors’ needs at Christopher Homes sites
    Northshore helpers respond to seniors’ needs at Christopher Homes sites
    Emergency pantries set up at Rouquette Lodge and St. Teresa’s Villa
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  • St. Charles Borromeo hopes prayer ribbons will start 'blooming' on trees outside churches
    St. Charles Borromeo hopes prayer ribbons will start 'blooming' on trees outside churches
    The first "S.I.T." – Special Intentions Tree – has been set up outside St. Charles Borromeo Church in Destrehan.
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  • Mental health services continue with Catholic Counseling Service
    Mental health services continue with Catholic Counseling Service
    Catholic Counseling Service (CCS) of the Archdiocese of New Orleans hasn’t missed a beat when it comes to offering mental health counseling services.
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  • ‘Tiny wedding’ was full of big memories at Our Lady of the Lake Church
    ‘Tiny wedding’ was full of big memories at Our Lady of the Lake Church
    It is a wedding that Father Mark Lomax will not soon forget.
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  • Abp. Aymond: All Holy Week liturgies likely to be 'private'
    Abp. Aymond: All Holy Week liturgies likely to be 'private'
    Archbishop Gregory Aymond said Friday that Catholic liturgical services during Holy Week (April 5-12) in the Archdiocese of New Orleans likely will be conducted in the same “private” fashion...
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  • Catholic schools shift gears quickly to online learning
    Catholic schools shift gears quickly to online learning
    Joan Kathmann, principal at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School in Kenner since August 2009, well remembers the days and months of what school was like after Hurricane Katrina.
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  • Spiritual tips during our forced exile
    Campus is empty, as many parts of our beloved city have become over the last two weeks when the coronavirus brought our ordinary lives to an abrupt halt.
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  • #iGiveCatholic online giving platform activated for U.S. dioceses
    #iGiveCatholic online giving platform activated for U.S. dioceses
    With the global spread of COVID-19 financially impacting the ministry of the U.S. church, the bishop-led board of the annual, 24-hour #iGiveCatholic online giving platform activated...
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  • St. Benedict’s prayer blanket ministry adjusts to serve local need
    St. Benedict’s prayer blanket ministry adjusts to serve local need
    Volunteers from the prayer blanket ministry at St. Benedict Church in Covington are making medical gowns and masks for hospice and skilled nursing staff at three archdiocesan nursing homes.
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  • Brother Martin keeps prayer at the forefront every day
    Brother Martin keeps prayer at the forefront every day
    As we all move into this indefinite brave new world of virtual everything – work, school and even contacting friends and family – Brother Martin High School...
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  • Pope Francis to grant Plenary Indulgence on Friday
    Pope Francis to grant Plenary Indulgence on Friday
    During the Statio orbis, which will be streamed from the Vatican website at www.vaticannews.va, Pope Francis will grant to all participants the Plenary Indulgence before imparting the Urbi et Orbi Blessing.
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  • New hours announced for free school cafeteria meals
    New hours announced for free school cafeteria meals
    Sixteen curbside “Grab-‘n’-Go” drive-thru meal centers at Catholic school cafeterias have changed their opening hours...
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  • Daily videos unite De La Salle in prayer, humor
    Daily videos unite De La Salle in prayer, humor
    On Day One of De La Salle High School’s coronavirus-induced foray into distance learning, school president Paul Kelly greeted his students virtually through a cheerful yet serious YouTube video.
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  • A game-changing virus has me yearning for Sunday Mass
    I never thought I would feel that way again. It was 1962.
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  • Pope announces extraordinary ‘urbi et orbi’ blessing
    Pope announces extraordinary ‘urbi et orbi’ blessing
    In response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis said he would give an extraordinary blessing “urbi et orbi”...
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  • Online giving enables parish support to continue
    Online giving enables parish support to continue
    Cory Howat, executive director of the Catholic Community Foundation of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, didn’t have to look far out into the horizon to see what was brewing...
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