• To college and beyond: Surviving the first year
    To college and beyond: Surviving the first year
    by Kim Roberts
    Kid's Clarion Editor/NOLA Catholic Parenting blogger Kim Roberts talks about what her first year being an empty nester was like.
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  • Clarion Herald earns 14 national awards
    Clarion Herald earns 14 national awards
    The Catholic Media Association presented the Clarion Herald with 14 national awards Friday night at the Catholic Media Conference in Atlanta.
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  • Monica demanded and got the best from his players
    Monica demanded and got the best from his players
    by Ed Daniels
    "This week, I was thinking about the call I got from a 2024 inductee into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. His induction happened this weekend in Natchitoches."
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  • Dangerously close to nuclear war – please pay attention!
    Dangerously close to nuclear war – please pay attention!
    Everyone throughout the world, needs to urge President Biden to act in the spirit and example of Jesus – to be a nonviolent peacemaker as his, and our, Catholic faith teaches. Please email him at https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/. - Tony Magliano
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  • Once a grand old rivalry, Jesuit vs. Easton is back
    Once a grand old rivalry, Jesuit vs. Easton is back
    by Ron Brocato
    History tells us that the 1 o’clock football game on Nov. 9 between Jesuit and Warren Easton high schools will be the 50th in the once-legendary rivalry between the city’s oldest public and Catholic prep football programs.
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  • Pastors who navigated mergers express hope
    Pastors who navigated mergers express hope
    by Macie Capote
    With the mergers of several parishes in the Archdiocese of New Orleans scheduled to take effect July 1, pastors who have had to navigate parish mergers say the key to leadership is walking with people through their pain.
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  • National Hispanic ministry pastoral plan rolled out
    National Hispanic ministry pastoral plan rolled out
    by Kim Roberts
    The National Pastoral Plan for the Hispanic/Latino Ministry, approved by USCCB in June 2023, will begin to be implemented in the Archdiocese of New Orleans in the coming months.
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  • Nationwide village rallies to support veteran
    Nationwide village rallies to support veteran
    by Peter Finney Jr.
    Swensen first spotted McCormick pushing his cart train while she headed into the store. It troubled her. She thought to herself, why was this man, at his advanced age, being forced to do outdoor calisthenics on a volcanic asphalt parking lot in the midst of a triple-digit heat index?
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  • Parish mergers to take effect July 1
    Parish mergers to take effect July 1
    by Peter Finney Jr.
    The pastoral planning process that began 20 months ago with the goal of nurturing parish vitality across the Archdiocese of New Orleans will be implemented July 1 with the creation of five new parishes from among 11 existing parishes.
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  • Restructuring was driven by more than finances
    Restructuring was driven by more than finances
    by Archbishop Gregory Aymond
    Archbishop Gregory Aymond gives insight into his decision-making for parish mergers.
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  • Two ordained Jesuit priests
    Two ordained Jesuit priests
    by Peter Finney Jr.
    Everson and Mohr are among 19 Jesuits to be ordained in the United States, Canada and Haiti this year. All have undergone extensive and holistic training.
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  • Disaster relief team from St. Margaret Mary always on call
    Disaster relief team from St. Margaret Mary always on call
    by Kim Roberts
    Volunteers with the St. Margaret Mary Men’s Club Disaster Response Team in Slidell have aided people affected by hurricanes and other natural disasters in the Gulf South since the 1990s.
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  • Official appointments effective July 1
    Official appointments effective July 1
    In order to provide pastoral governance for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Archbishop Aymond has made the following appointments, effective July 1, 2024.
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  • We’re never too old to learn something new
    We’re never too old to learn something new
    by Dr. Heather Bozant Witcher
    Beginning in December, Dr. Heather Bozant Witcher signed up for classes to learn watercolor.
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  • Sometimes, you just really need to laugh
    Sometimes, you just really need to laugh
    by Peter Finney Jr.
    Editor Peter Finney Jr. talks about how during rough times, sometimes you just need to laugh.
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  • Redemptorist Fr. LaPorte, 85
    Redemptorist Fr. LaPorte, 85
    Redemptorist Father Gerard “Gerry” LaPorte, who served in ministry for over five decades, died May 17 at Mercy Hospital South in St. Louis, Missouri. He was 85.
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  • Catholic school star joins the U.S. Olympic team
    Catholic school star joins the U.S. Olympic team
    by Ron Brocato
    Mount Carmel alumna, Kristen Nuss, will be the third Olympian who graduated from a high school in the archdiocese.
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  • Superstitious? ESPN has Saints drafting in No. 13 spot
    Superstitious? ESPN has Saints drafting in No. 13 spot
    by Ed Daniels
    For a franchise that has not won fewer than seven games in any season over the past 18 years, the numbers were unsettling, to say the least.
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  • Eucharistic pilgrim: Jesus is the answer to everything
    Eucharistic pilgrim: Jesus is the answer to everything
    by Peter Finney Jr.
    Hundreds of people flocked to St. Rita Church in New Orleans one 7 for the opening of a three-day series of events connected to the National Eucharistic Congress.
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  • El que blasfeme contra el Espíritu Santo nunca tendrá perdón
    El que blasfeme contra el Espíritu Santo nunca tendrá perdón
    by Dominicano El Padre Manuel Solorzano
    ​​​​​​​Queridos hermanos: Regresamos al tiempo Ordinario, después de la Pascua y las fiestas posteriores, con una clara invitación a mirar de nuevo nuestra cotidianidad, la realidad más cercana, la vida de cada día y, especialmente nuestra propia naturaleza, que, aunque mortal y por tanto débil, es de Dios, llamada a ser, cada vez, más humana y más divina.
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