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Academy of Our Lady athletes were honored by the Westbank Quarterback Club on May 23, and the 2018 Bowling Team was also honored for winning the LHSAA State Championship. Senior Erin Burkart received recognition as the LHSAA Individual State Bowling Champion.

Saint Paul’s School recognized the achievements of three members of the Class of 2018 by awarding them the Louis Ross Scholarship at the academic awards at the end of the 2018-19 school year.

Saint Paul’s School presented eight members of the class of 2018 with special “Habitat Hammers” to reward their diligent and constant service to the Habitat Club based at school. The club works with West Saint Tammany Habitat one Saturday a month, and these seniors have devoted a significant number of Saturday’s to home building over their careers at Saint Paul’s.

St. Philip Neri Middle School collected diapers for their spiritual adoption baby shower to donate to ACCESS Women’s Shelter.  Kneeling:  Lea Falgout, Patrick Garvey, Jack Garvey, Brooke Heine, Clare Kirsch, Gabrielle Hickman, Dayne Benitez, Reese O’Regan and Collin Tusa.

Academy of Our Lady Key Club placed third in the “Year in Review” contest for its traditional scrapbook at the 75th Annual Convention of LAMISSTENN District of Key Club International April 13-15 in Baton Rouge. LAMISSTENN covers several Key Clubs over 16 divisions and three states (Louisiana, Mississippi and western Tennessee). 

Academy of Our Lady faculty member Joseph Bordlee is the winner of Barnes and Noble’s My Favorite Teacher Contest. Senior Calli Nguyen, of Harvey, nominated Bordlee by submitting an essay detailing how influential Bordlee has been throughout her high school education.

St. Mary’s Dominican High School recently announced  scholarship recipients. They are, seated, from left: Brooke Babin, Isabella Bagnetto, Amelia Bernard, Madelaine Brown, Katherine Ellis, Amelia Haab, Katherine Harper and Bailey Johnson.

Academy of Our Lady junior Megan Russell, of Gretna, placed second in District 3 for Sociology at the Louisiana High School State Literary Rally held April 21 at Louisiana State University.

Auxiliary Bishop Fernand Cheri will be the principal celebrant of a Mass of Thanksgiving June 9 at 10 a.m. for four Sisters of the Holy Family who are celebrating major anniversaries of religious profession.

Trailblazers Senior Ministry- This ministry is designed to meet the needs of senior citizens with opportunities to socialize and obtain valuable information that affects their lives. Meetings are held every second Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Althea Holmes Center, 300 Ptolemy Street, New Orleans (behind the church) Chairman: Alvin Griffin, 361-8835.

At my undergraduate graduation ceremony, the one thing I remember most was the heat. It was an outdoor ceremony, under the beautiful oaks at Spring Hill College. I also remember worrying that it was outdoors. As an allergy sufferer who spends much time indoors, away from the film of yellow coating everything in sight, willingly sitting in the midst of the trees was a big deal.

Searching for a job at any age puts most people on a bullet train to Stressville. When you’re 45 or more, a job search can be particularly daunting. If you haven’t looked for a job in years, guess what? Things have changed. A lot.

A little regular exercise can take away the years of damage people have done by sitting around and doing nothing, researchers reported Monday. They found a two-year program roughly following the American Heart Association’s exercise guidelines helped a pack of middle-aged couch potatoes tune up their hearts and lower their risk of heart failure.

Sometimes, all it takes is an invitation to find one’s passion in life. For Lori Kilgore, a Mary Queen of Peace parishioner in Mandeville, it was fellow parishioner Karen Sheehy encouraging her to get involved with WINE (Women in the New Evangelization) that led to her doing so.

To say the recently ended track and field campaign for Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of New Orleans was less than stellar might be stretching the truth just a bit. Two schools – the Academy of the Sacred Heart and St. Katharine Drexel Prep – won team state championships. 

As I write this, the work of archdiocesan offices and agencies to create and provide resources called for by the implementation plan of the Ninth General Synod is nearly complete. The focus now, even more than a year ago, is on the most local level of our church, the parishes and deaneries, who are taking advantage of these resources and opportunities to address the most pressing of the priorities in their community. 

Academy of Our Lady senior Erin Burkart was named the Allstate Sugar Bowl Greater New Orleans Amateur Athlete for the month of April. She will be honored at the annual Hall of Fame ceremony in the summer.                            [Photo by Ron Brocato | CLARION HERALD]

Retirement and estate planning can be daunting, especially for the uninitiated, so it’s probably not the wisest thing to entrust those decisions to someone who merely plays an estate planner on television or who was wise enough to spend one night at a Holiday Inn Express.

Although they are difficult to make out from the ground floor of St. Alphonsus Church in New Orleans, the unpretentious stained-glass emblems located along the church’s balcony level hint at a much larger story.

El Apostolado Hispano, organiza su segunda gala, para recaudar dinero para su programa de Becas Santo Tomás de Aquino, que ayuda a las familias a mantener a sus hijos matriculados en las escuelas Católicas de la Arquidiócesis de Nueva Orleáns.