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God's Special Children will celebrate its anniversary Mass Oct. 10 at 2 p.m. at St. Francis Xavier Church, 444 Metairie Road, Metairie.

Marianite Sister Judy Gomila reflects on the loving service given – and received – by local women religious in the aftermath of Hurricanes Betsy, Katrina and Ida.

Chauvin-born Maddy Thibodeaux offers this unique perspective on the faith and tenacity of those who reside in her native Terrebonne Parish.

A new wave of COVID-19 creates challenges for the school year, but Dr. RaeNell Houston says teachers, administrators, parents and students will rise to the challenge.

Diamond Flowers, a senior at Cabrini High School, shares her experience participating in FaithActs, a program of Loyola University New Orleans which helps students become leaders in the field of environmental science and its connection with faith.

What a beautiful image of what marriage truly is: a vocation in which husband and wife serve the Lord, continually seeking holiness as one.

Retired Belleville (Illinois) Bishop Edward Braxton, the former bishop of Lake Charles, says a divided, polarized country must unite in prayer and in action.

Father Manuel gives his homily for the weekend of Dec. 19-20.

Kids’ Clarion asked Mount Carmel Sister Beth Fitzpatrick to reflect on the first reading scheduled for Masses Dec. 13, the Third Sunday of Advent (Isa. 61: 1-2A, 10-11).

A community foundation makes it even easier to achieve your charitable giving goals while positively impacting the greater community.

On election day, all Catholics should speak up for the sanctity of human life when they enter the voting booth by voting yes to the Love Life Amendment.

Today’s readings spur me to think about our family becoming white.

St. Paul makes a sweeping claim in today’s second reading. Nothing can separate us from God’s love, he says. Neither “present things” nor “future things.”

We do not know how to pray as we ought,” St. Paul tells us today.

(God) has not forgotten us but set aside a unique child (or children) for us, just as he does for every couple blessed with pregnancies.

The lives of little ones will be shaped by what we show them and tell them.

It seems the best way to break down the artificial barriers in our society is to find common cause with people who may be different from us but who share the same concerns and desire for a better future for our neighborhoods, our state and church!

As true Catholics, let us continue to pray for the church, our country and our world that we will see our call to work for true peace and justice and transform the world by disseminating God’s love.

If we as a society are to move forward from systemic racism, racial bias and racial inequality, then we must first change the perception that some whites have of African-American people, specifically African-American males.

There comes a time when silence in the face of evil constitutes complicity in that evil, and for me, that time has come.