• Celebrating God’s mercy in our time of quarantine
    Celebrating God’s mercy in our time of quarantine
    April 14, 2020
    This weekend, we will celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday differently than we ever have before, just as last Sunday we celebrated the great feast of Easter unlike any in our memory.
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  • Easter Sunday readings: We ate and drank with him
    Easter Sunday readings: We ate and drank with him
    April 12, 2020
    Jesus was put to death on a Friday afternoon, and his disciples placed his body in a nearby tomb.
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  • A ‘quarantined’ Easter for families has brought hidden joys
    A ‘quarantined’ Easter for families has brought hidden joys
    April 8, 2020
    Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think we would find ourselves here...
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  • Church alive and well inside seminary community
    April 8, 2020
    The streets are empty. Voices don’t reverberate off vestibule walls. Church doors don’t swing wide.
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  • Women religious live out Catholic Social Teaching
    April 7, 2020
    About 40 sisters in East Africa studied online for Loyola’s Certificate in Catholic Social Teaching. They learned how to practice LIM’s model of “practical theology,” engaging the Christian tradition in their unique social and cultural contexts.
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  • Palm Sunday: Entering Holy Week
    Palm Sunday: Entering Holy Week
    April 5, 2020
    On this Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, we enter the holiest of weeks in the church’s liturgical year.
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  • Catholic Charities CEO: ‘Faith in action’ continues
    April 1, 2020
    While New Orleans is not a stranger to hardships and resilience is a bone-deep quality of our community...
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  • 5th Sunday of Lent: Something for after confession?
    5th Sunday of Lent: Something for after confession?
    March 29, 2020
    Recently I got into a conversation with a few fellow Catholics about confession.
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  • Spiritual tips during our forced exile
    March 27, 2020
    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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  • Fourth Sunday of Lent: The Good Shepherd
    Fourth Sunday of Lent: The Good Shepherd
    March 21, 2020
    Deep beneath the Eternal City of Rome is a vast maze of underground tunnels used by the first Christians who inhabited the ancient city.
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  • Making a Difference: We are all in this together!
    March 20, 2020
    “The worst is, yes, ahead of us,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, U.S. director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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  • Third Sunday of Lent: An invitation to drink and eat
    Third Sunday of Lent: An invitation to drink and eat
    March 14, 2020
    A friend of mine liked to quote a saint – I don’t remember which one – who said that food is God’s love made edible.
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  • Lent, conversion and the corporal works of mercy
    March 12, 2020
    Recently, I was in a conversation with a man journeying into the Catholic faith
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  • 2nd Sunday of Lent: Do not be afraid
    2nd Sunday of Lent: Do not be afraid
    March 7, 2020
    When World War II broke out in 1939, Karol Wojtyla, the future St. John Paul II, had just turned 19.
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  • First Sunday of Lent: A starter question for Lent
    First Sunday of Lent: A starter question for Lent
    February 29, 2020
    Our first reading contains a symbolic story in which a kind of Everywoman and Everyman face a basic human question: How will I live – God’s way or my way?
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  • Grateful for the ones who came before me
    Grateful for the ones who came before me
    February 27, 2020
    "You are standing on the site where enslaved people were warehoused.”
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  • 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time: St. Josephine Bakhita
    7th Sunday in Ordinary Time: St. Josephine Bakhita
    February 22, 2020
    Each year on Feb. 8, the church marks the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita.
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  • Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Aim for peace
    Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Aim for peace
    February 15, 2020
    Today’s Gospel features parallel statements by Jesus. He begins, each time, with “you have heard that it was said ...”
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  • St. Angela’s feast day: Ursuline Academy’s ‘labor of love’
    St. Angela’s feast day: Ursuline Academy’s ‘labor of love’
    February 13, 2020
    St. Angela’s Feast Day is a tradition through which Ursuline Academy lives out its motto of “Serviam” (“I will serve”).       
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  • Sirens are always met with prayer, loving hearts at St. Dominic
    Sirens are always met with prayer, loving hearts at St. Dominic
    February 11, 2020
    Every year during the first week of school, we go over procedures with our brand-new kindergarten students....
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