The following information is the most recent available for church weddings at various parishes in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Contact the parishes to schedule your wedding date and for the churches’ wedding guidelines. This is not a comprehensive list.

Charley Hession, development associate with Ascension DePaul Services, and his bride Marie Celeste Robichaux assume the post-WWII pose of the sailor kissing a woman in Times Square on VJ Day in 1945.

One engaged couple decided that making a holy hour, along with family and friends, the night before their wedding would be blessing to their marriage.

This white wine and Aperol spritz is a refreshing summertime drink. In biblical times, people would add wine to their well or cistern water to make it taste better.

Registrations are being accepted through Jan. 6 for participation in the Archdiocese of New Orleans’ annual “Martin Luther King Jr. Day On, Not Off Day of Service.”

In this month’s installment of the items that one sees inside every Catholic church, Kids’ Clarion looks at the chalice and the paten.

Events from Dec. 13, 2022-June 4, 2023 Please send event announcements two weeks before each issue to calendar@clarionherald.org Next issue: December 24, 2022

Kids’ Clarion recently got a peek at the small but lively Parish School of Religion classes at St. James Major Church in New Orleans.

A new women's group hosts events to bolster the faith of Catholic females with talks, prayer and events.

Mount Carmel Academy has added campus ministers and a new intercessory prayer ministry of students, faculty, alumni and friends this year.

Temporary Administrators for Transfiguration of the Lord and Mary Queen of Peace Parishes announced.

Archbishop Gregory Aymond reflects on the tragic murders of Rev. Otis Young and Ruth Prats and prays for consolation for the entire Archdiocese of New Orleans.

There are no answers to the inscrutable: The murders of a beloved retired priest and a former pastoral associate. But Father Otis Young and Ruth Prats were beacons of light.

Update from St. Tammany Coroner's Office on the identification of Father Otis Young, former pastor at St. Peter Catholic Church in Covington.

Father Paul Desrosiers, who died Nov. 19 at age 76, survived many medical setbacks to continue serving as a priest of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

St. Scholastica student Grace Hartdegen interviews three teens about their 'sweet' businesses.

St. John the Baptist Church – the church with the “golden steeple” – will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its dedication with a 4 p.m. Mass Dec. 3.

Please send event announcements two weeks before each issue to calendar@clarionherald.org Nov. 26-Dec. 11, 2022 NEXT ISSUE: Dec. 10, 2022

Effective immediately, parishes may reintroduce Communion from the Precious Blood from the chalice.