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BATON ROUGE – Public school principals in the five classes of the Louisiana High School Athletic Association that field football teams voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to continue to hold separate championship playoffs, a vote non-public school principals considered a blindside.

Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans is inviting all Catholic schools to participate in the “Show Your Heart Day” fund-raiser on Feb. 14 – Valentine’s Day – or near that date. Students at archdiocesan schools are asked to donate at least $1 for Catholic Charities’ annual appeal.

The culminating event of the 30th annual National Week of Prayer for Christian Unity – a worship service for people of all faiths – was held Jan. 26 at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral in New Orleans.

“Well, what do you think?” Father Doug Doussan asked audience members Jan. 18 after an evening performance of “Living Water,” a play written about St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish’s resurrection after Hurricane Katrina.

Deadline: Submissions due Thursday (10 days before each issue) calendar@clarionherald.org (504) area code unless noted Feb. 1-10 EVENTS PASSIONIST FATHER CEDRIC PISEGNA, a Houston priest, expands “Live With Passion!” nationally on Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) Sundays at 7 a.m. (check local listings).

Seventy-two members of the Dominican Sisters of Peace, including seven sisters with ties to the Archdiocese of New Orleans, recently celebrated jubilees of religious profession. Celebrating 50 years of vowed life were Sister Shirley Bodisch (formerly Sister Mary Thomas Aquinas), and Sister Therese Leckert.

Calendario de Actividades en Español en la Arquidiocesis de New Orleans ➤ Cupones para alimentos (SNAP): Necesita ayuda para comprar alimentos? Apostolado Hispano ayudarle a aplicar para Cupones de Alimentos.

Uno de los principales resultados del plan estratégico para las escuelas Católicas era establecer una estructura consistente a nivel escolar para las escuelas primarias y secundarias. ¿Por qué era tan importante esto?

Too often our routines become monotonous and meaningless. Lately, I’ve been thinking about the way we go through our lives: we wake up, go to work or school, return home and fall asleep. This semester, I’m particularly feeling the monotony of my schedule.

On Jan. 16, Academy of Our Lady’s Right to Life club hosted a pro-life rally. At the event, tables were set up by students and several local organizations to present nearly all the aspects involved in the right to life to promote the education and awareness of these issues.

A strange week it has been. Here I was, wondering for months. If the Saints get to the Super Bowl, how will we navigate the ice and snow of New York City on deadline for TV each day? Turns out I didn’t have to worry about going to the winter weather.

Principals of the Louisiana High School Athletic Association will vote on 40 pages of proposals at their annual convention in Baton Rouge on Jan. 29-31, the most significant of which may determine the future of the LHSAA.

If there existed a bible of high school sports in New Orleans, it would show that just two coaches in history have led their teams to a state basketball championship and an American Legion Little World Series title.

When Cory and Molly Howat had their firstborn child – a daughter – in 2008, there was no doubt about what name they would give to her: “Katherine Kateri Howat.” Two family connections were behind the beautiful naming: Cory Howat’s mother, an orphan, had been raised by a community of religious sisters who prayed daily for the canonization of then-Venerable Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Native American who had also been orphaned at a young age, and who had converted to Catholicism after learning about Jesus from the Jesuit missionaries.

“Elegant” isn’t usually a word used to describe a robot. But a beautifully streamlined, 24-pound wood-and-metal machine designed and built by Holy Cross’ robotics team was dubbed just that – “Most Elegant” – at last December’s “South’s BEST” regional robotics championship at Auburn University.

When third graders from St. Benedict the Moor School threw a Dec. 13 party for the Sisters of the Holy Family at their motherhouse, the Santa-hatted youngsters weren’t there just to play the bells and sing a joyful repertoire of Christmas favorites.

Catholics in the Archdiocese of New Orleans make the request every Sunday at the end of the Family Prayer: “Our Lady of Prompt Succor, hasten to help us.” This title for the Blessed Mother has a special meaning at Ursuline Academy, whose founding community of sisters established the first all-girls’ school in North America in 1727 and began calling Mary by this name in 1810 – in thanksgiving for her speedy – or “prompt” – assistance.

Since being appointed last year by Archbishop Gregory Aymond as chaplain of the archdiocese’s pastoral outreach to Catholics with homosexual orientation, Father Salvador Galvez has learned first-hand the sensitive challenges schools face in ministering to students who have a homosexual orientation and who are at an increased risk of being ostracized or bullied.

In his decades serving as a pastor and as vicar for clergy in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Msgr. Ray Hebert, who died Jan. 16 at 85 at West Jefferson Hospital, was known for his gentle demeanor and his willingness to listen carefully with an open heart.