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The words “human trafficking” often evoke images of Asian, Russian or Filipino girls being smuggled across the country in chains for forced sexual encounters.

On Ash Wednesday, we will begin our 40-day Lenten journey.

Do you ever find it difficult to be courageous in this complex, ever-changing world?

It seemed appropriate that, as we neared Valentine’s Day, my husband and I finally got around to hanging the framed collages of our engagement and wedding photos.

The second decade of the new millennium produced a galaxy of stars on the high school basketball courts....

People who recognize and embrace their spiritual poverty will inherit the kingdom of God, not those who place their trust in the comforts of this world....

Dr. Ansel Augustine was minding his own business – navigating potholes while driving to a Saints’ preseason game last August....

The Archdiocese of New Orleans’ Respect Life Office sponsored a major human trafficking symposium last Saturday....

Every year during the first week of school, we go over procedures with our brand-new kindergarten students....

Still gloating over that 49ers’ loss to the Chiefs in the Super Bowl?....

For several years, my children and I have been wearing the brown scapular....

As I watched the Super Bowl halftime show last Sunday, there was an eerie visual, and, no, I’m not talking about the pole dancing or wardrobe malfunctions....

It is now obvious (if it wasn’t before) that the Louisiana High School Athletic Association’s principals, particularly from north Louisiana....

The Archdiocese of New Orleans has for decades held a Golden Wedding Anniversary celebration for couples who have been married for 50 years....

During the fall semester,  advertisements for high schools and colleges fill the pages of diocesan newspapers as eighth graders and 12th graders – and their families – try to select the place they will.....

Last October, the Clarion Herald published “A Pastoral Letter on the Death Penalty” by the East St. Tammany-Washington Deanery (https://tinyurl.com/wk9f3kj). Here’s the story of how it came to be, offered as an example of clergy-lay collaboration....

“Two wrongs don’t make a right.” Just think how much better each one of us and the world would be, if we held fast to this morally correct common sense proverb. But unfortunately, common sense and morality are often not considered when we feel we have been wronged.

This new year, this new decade, begins much like the past year, the past decade: wars between countries, wars within countries, nations around the globe preparing for future wars and astronomical military budgets cemented in place to ensure all this unholy madness continues. As an elixir to this seemingly hopeless trap the world finds itself in, Pope Francis offers us a hopeful path forward away from the blood and tears of war. In his Jan. 1, 2020 World Day of Peace message “Peace as a Journey of Hope: Dialogue, Reconciliation and Ecological Conversion,” the Holy Father writes “Hope is thus the virtue that inspires us and keeps us moving forward, even when obstacles seem insurmountable.”

Alyssa explains her drawing: “This is actually the monstrance that we have the host in during adoration. So, I thought what better way to show that than to literally put Christ on a Christmas tree? I came up with the idea for the piece while I was in adoration. I had a vision. As for the berries in the Christmas tree, I had that idea while I was in Mass. For the holidays, my family and I always go to Christmas Eve Mass.