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"I was blessed recently to return to Croatia for the first time in 25 years!" - Gina Sternfels

"I don’t yet know or understand the reason for my son’s diagnosis, but I know God will reveal it in his time." - Dr. Heather Bozant Witcher

More favorable management is hoping to convert the “Shrine on Airline” baseball stadium into a viable football, rugby and entertainment venue.

How will the Saints fare this season? Ed Daniels give his perspective.

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Jesuit cross country coach Cullen Doody and St. Scholastica swim coach Chris Prator have been selected as the Allstate Sugar Bowl’s Prep Coaches of the Year.

54 men and women identified by their alma maters as exemplars of the values taught in Catholic schools were honored recently by the archdiocese.

The Sacred Heart Brothers and Congregation of St. Joseph sisters decided to share resources in a common residence.

Become a House of Peace and pray for your neighbor. This effort, begun by Dean and HollyKem Sunseri, hopes to take back New Orleans from violence one block at a time.

The largest, Black Catholic fraternal organization in the world held its national convention in New Orleans and included all its divisions and the Ladies Auxiliary.

An Ursuline Academy elective, STEM for Others, had students learning how to construct a boat sail and then donating it to a subsistence fisherman in Haiti.

“The childlike are those who, like children, feel needy and not self-sufficient; they are open to God and let themselves be astonished by his works ...” - Pope Francis

Deacon Shelly's funeral will be held Friday, July 21 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 411 N. Rampart St., New Orleans, with visitation beginning at 8 a.m.,rosary at 9 a.m. with NOFD Final Alarm tribute, and Mass at 10 a.m.

CYO Youth Ministers Forum will be held Aug. 19 from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Local efforts are being made to educate people about the 5 1/2 million people trafficked in the United States every year - many right here in Louisiana - and to provide safe houses for them and share these methods in other states.

Clarion Herald business manager Mark Lombard writes poignantly about his son Matthew, whose brain cancer diagnosis has forced him to reassess his life.

Benedictine Father Gregory Boquet was elected the sixth abbot of the Benedictine community of St. Joseph Abbey on July 14.

"It takes more courage to seek peace than to wage war. It takes more courage to promote encounter than confrontation, to sit at the negotiating table than to continue hostilities. ...” - Pope Francis

Academy of Our Lady’s campers and children who attend sporting events at the Marrero high school have a beautiful new space in which to play.