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Sister of the Holy Family Doris Goudeaux worked the last 30 years of her life on the sainthood cause of Mother Henriette Delille. When she died Nov. 9, she still had hope.

Karen Baker was on the Sea of Galilee when her Times-Picayune editor called to tell her she and 200 others were losing their jobs. It's amazing what's happened since.

Chris Lowney, a former Jesuit scholastic, is a renowned author and speaker on ethical business leadership. Lowney explains what St. Ignatius figured out 500 years ago.

Pensacola-Tallahassee Bishop William Wack, the ninth of 10 children, learned so much from his dad. But he didn't realize his dad learned so much from God while on his knees.

There have been many miracles in Francis’ life – he met his late wife as an undergraduate at Xavier, and they were married for 60 years and had six children – but one that stands out apart from his family legacy is the jewel that Xavier was and has become.

Former Archbishop Alfred Hughes will turn 90 in December, but he's keeping his mind, body and spirit finely tuned to serve the people of God.

How do you teach teens about poverty without giving them a lecture? The late Jesuit Father Richard Thomas knew how.

The former Redemptorist High School principal has led a life for others, filled with teaching and doing little things that have made an incredible impact.

Subscribing to a "consistent ethic" and voting for one who feels "abortion is a ‘basic right’ of the individual ... would be an absence of legal protection for the unborn."- the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. If we are to read the signs of the times, the abortion issue is of monumental moral importance - Moral theologian Charles Camousy.

How can we help children and teens – who will shape society for the next 75 years – make abortion unthinkable? Here's a modest proposal.

New Orleans Saints and Pelicans president Dennis Lauscha, a 1987 graduate of Jesuit, says caring for the community has been a bedrock value for both franchises.

For the last two years, Father Otis Young, pastor of St. Peter Church in Covington, has been an icon of faith and perseverance by celebrating Mass despite the after-effects of a stroke.

Judge Calvin Johnson was arrested as a 16-year-old in 1963 for "inciting a riot" while advocating for the desegregation of public schools. Nearly 60 years later, he got an incredible gift.

When Bernadette D'Souza was an attorney protecting clients from domestic violence, a woman was gunned down at her feet. Her Catholic faith remains her life's anchor.

"Rise St. James" founder Sharon Lavigne will receive the prestigious Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame May 15 for her grassroots faith-based organization that has slowed, perhaps imperiled, the mammoth Formosa Plastics Group project near Donaldsonville, La.

The surge in deadly carjackings in New Orleans begs the question: Why exactly are we allowing this? It's a citizens' wake-up call.

Msgr. William Bilinsky, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Catholic priest living in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, relates his memory of his time in 1991 as a translator for then-retired Archbishop Philip Hannan in Ukraine.

Father Pedro Nuñez was so nervous about public speaking in the seminary that he asked classmates to pinch-hit for him. Now he's known around the world for his powerful witness.

Charlie Myers didn't talk much about himself. But when he died Feb. 6 at the age of 99, the stories flowed about how he was a champion for civil rights far ahead of his time.

Attorney Bob Winn became a tireless defender of unborn life in 1970 after seeing the reality of abortion through a series of slides. He passed away Jan. 13 at 83.