During his homily at today’s Divine Mercy Sunday Mass, Archbishop Gregory Aymond marveled at the first words spoken by Christ to his apostles cowering in the Upper Room: Not "Why did you abandon me?” but “Peace be with you.”

Kids’ Clarion asked Sister of Mount Carmel Andrée Bindewald to reflect on the Gospel to be proclaimed at Masses this weekend – the Second Sunday of Easter and Divine Mercy Sunday.

Tom Costanza was appointed April 6 as executive director of the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops, the public policy arm of the state's seven dioceses.