News - January 2018 RSS Feed

St. Scholastica Academy Student Council’s executive board visited the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center where a check was donated to  Mike Miranda, program manager.  Over $2,000 was raised by the SSA students and donated to Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center in Covington, LA.

Last week you celebrated a special liturgy at Our Lady of the Lake Church in Mandeville for children and adults with special needs. You confirmed four people and gave first Communion to six others. How did that personally affect you? It touches me emotionally to spend time walking into the lives of those with special needs, and it also helps me come to better understand the responsibilities of their parents and the ways in which they have to care for them.

If all politics is local – the precinct-tested adage of former U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill – then the politics of immigration is the face in the mirror. In May, Martin Gutierrez, a division director for Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans, will be seated with his family in the front pews of St. Louis Cathedral for a Mass during which his son Andrew, a graduate of Archbishop Rummel High School, will be ordained to the transitional diaconate, the final step before ordination to the priesthood in 2019.

ST. DOMINIC, in-person registration for prospective new students for the 2018-19 school year, Feb. 5, St. Dominic School, 6326 Memphis St., New Orleans. www.stdominicnola.org, 482-4123.
ST. MARY MAGDALEN, Parents’ Club general meeting, Feb. 7, 7 p.m., Massett Hall, 6421 West Metairie Ave., Metairie.

La semana pasada celebraron una liturgia especial en la Iglesia de Our Lady of the Lake en Covington, para niños y adultos con necesidades especiales. Usted confirmó a cuatro personas, y dio la primera Comunión a otras seis personas. ¿Cómo le afectó eso personalmente?

Parents can no longer keep their head in the sand about the real and present dangers of pornography and its effects on their children, an expert told parents at a Jan. 23 meeting at Archbishop Chapelle High School. Matt Fradd, a native of Australia who now lives in Georgia, has studied the impact of pornography for the last 11 years. He made parents and educators aware of the dangers of pornography, how easily it can be found on the internet and gave steps to shield children from it.

At the Dec. 2 French Oratory Competition at Ecole Bilingue that drew 100 high school students, 15 St. Mary’s Dominican High School students chose excerpts from French literary works and songs to recite from memory or sing before a panel of francophone judges. Following their performance, the judges posed several questions to each participant regarding the chosen literary work and his or her history with the French language.

St. Mary’s Dominican High inducted 31 students into Sociedad Honoraria, Chapter Las Adelitas, established this fall. Spanish teacher and moderator Claudia Vallejo said the students selected the name, “Las Adelitas,” in honor of the women who participated in the Mexican Revolution as commanders, soldiers, and nurses.

Instant Theatre at St. Mary’s Dominican High School marked its 19th year with students taking center stage for comedy, drama and dance. Presented by the Drama Club, Instant Theatre featured 32 acts. 

t was a parishwide effort when 22 members of the CYO, the Faith and Families and Social Concerns ministries at St. Pius X joined forces recently to better understand the idea of human dignity and offer direct assistance to the homeless.

Just as news of the return of once-popular home decorating show Trading Spaces hit the airwaves, the north and south regions traded their own spaces. As the temperatures dropped last week, New Orleanians experienced the frigid and dangerous conditions of their northern neighbors.

On a recent December afternoon, teachers and administrators at St. Mary’s Academy Elementary School – led by Scholastic representatives Sherry Wilkerson and Sherri Wilson – collaborated to create math ideas they could use to engage parents in their child’s education during parent nights.

The new $14 million residence hall nearing completion at the University of Holy Cross in Algiers is a bold statement for a Catholic university that for decades has prided itself on its intimacy, affordability and results. Dr. David “Buck” Landry, UHC president, is a numbers guy, and he’s not bashful about his reasoning for pushing the university’s board to approve the biggest capital outlay in the school’s history.

One of the great metaphors of the Bible is “the journey.” From Genesis to Revelation, Scripture is full of people on the move: from Abraham to the Promised Land and Paul and the apostles – after the resurrection – all over the Roman Empire.

A recent two-hour workshop at Mount Carmel Academy led by a Children’s Hospital psychiatrist, a psychiatric nurse and two members of the Mercy Family Center’s suicide prevention team gave insight on the prevalence of suicide and a teacher’s role in responding to at-risk students. Two suicide prevention specialists with Partners in Prevention (PiP) – a program of Mercy Family Center’s Project Fleur-de-Lis – detailed suicide statistics, facts, risk factors, warning signs and how teachers can encourage a troubled student’s conversation, not attempt to fix a perceived problem.

ARLINGTON, Va. (NCEA)  – The board of directors of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) has appointed Tucson Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas, D.D., Ph.D., as chairman, succeeding Bishop George V. Murry, S.J., who stepped down from the position on Dec. 8.

In November 1967, Archbishop Philip Hannan’s initiative to convince the Louisiana Legislature of the importance of supporting Catholic and non-public schools with “a fair share” of taxpayer dollars took shape through the formation of the Louisiana Federation, Citizens for Educational Freedom (CEF).

When Marsha Davis was growing up, only on a rare occasion did her father, Lawrence W. Courville, discuss his Army National Guard service during World War II. She knew his childhood buddy from the Bay City, Michigan, National Guard had died in battle next to him and that her dad had contracted malaria, but other than that, she was clueless.

Reflections from the 2018 March for Life submitted by St. Mary’s Dominican students follow. In my daily prayer of “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening,” (1 Samuel 3:10), I heard God calling me to attend the March for Life. I had no idea going into the trip what it would be like, what I would encounter or if I would regret my decision to go. I expected a trip where I would see Washington, D.C., and, for one day March for Life, but the trip exceeded my expectations in an incredible way.