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It’s one of those foods that people either love or hate, but cafeteria staff across the Archdiocese of New Orleans hoped their young diners would at least give it a try: kale – finely chopped Tuscan kale to be precise – tossed with Cajun seasoning, Parmesan cheese and olive oil. The superfood was then baked long enough to draw out its nutty flavor,  yet lightly enough to preserve its famous crunch.

One American family’s experiences as missionaries living in fellowship with the poor of Nicaragua will be a highlight of the archdiocese’s 28th annual Children’s Mission Day celebration, set to roll Oct. 19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the St. Mary’s Dominican High School gym.

Today’s Gospel consists of a parable by Jesus. Before saying anything about it, I’d like to tell a parable of my own. In a certain city, there was a nonprofit organization that worked to alleviate hunger.

In bringing my family and, especially, my kids closer to the church, I have found that I am not alone in guiding them. It is wonderful to have grandparents, friends and family nearby to pick up the kids from school or if one of them is burning up with a fever. Otherwise, you would have to leave work at the last minute, which usually is impossible because of commitments.

Celia Hughes was a stay-at-home wife, living in a country whose language was as distant as its shores from her Texas home. Her husband, Boyd, a contractor for the U.S. Air Force in Okinawa, was busy with work and his second profession, and their three children were grown. So Celia did what any bored housewife with extra time on her hands would do, right?

WASHINGTON (CNS) –Cokie Roberts, a broadcast journalist and political commentator who spoke publicly about her Catholic faith and her admiration for the Sacred Heart sisters who taught her, died Sept. 17 due to complications from breast cancer. She was 75.

For nearly two centuries, the church has designated October as a month to highlight its fundamental call to be missionary. Pope Francis has proclaimed an Extraordinary Mission Month this October to commemorate the centennial of one of the church’s most important missionary documents – the 1919 apostolic letter “Maximum Illud” written by Pope Benedict XV.

Dominican Father David Caron, vicar of evangelization for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, likes to paint word images to illustrate why it’s necessary for Catholics to live out their baptismal call and spread the Gospel in their homes and workplaces.

Students at St. Angela Merici have no excuse to start the school day yawning – especially on “Hump Day.” For the last couple of years, Wednesdays on the school’s Metairie campus have been designated as “Karaoke Wednesday.”

Al Robichaux is of the generation who heard President John F. Kennedy say in his 1961 inaugural address: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

A brush with an alligator earned a ninth grader at Archbishop Rummel High School in Metairie a commendation for heroism Sept. 18 from the Jefferson Parish Council. Freshmen classmates and friends Stephen Campbell and Hayden Cantillo recounted their experience with a six-foot alligator the Thursday before Labor Day in River Ridge in water near the banks of the Mississippi River.

The Catholic Church will endure, despite the frailty and sins of its members, because it is God’s project, Pope Francis said. Continuing his series of audience talks about the Acts of the Apostles and the early Christian community Sept. 18, Pope Francis looked at the story of Gamaliel, a Pharisee who tried to teach members of the Sanhedrin a key aspect of “discernment,” which is not to rush to judgment, but rather to allow time for something to show itself as worthy or not.

An unassuming presence on the corner of Broadway Street and Pritchard Place has created positive change in the Gert Town New Orleans neighborhood. It’s the Dominican Peace Center that began celebrating its fifth birthday Sept. 21 with a neighborhood party.

Among the many documents of the Second Vatican Council, in particular the “Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World,” the church encourages us to examine the “signs of the times” and interpret those signs in the light of the Gospel.

George Brignac, who was removed from ministry as a permanent deacon in 1988, was arrested Sept. 20 by New Orleans police on recent allegations of abuse occurring approximately 40 years ago.

Even now, 20 years later, the truth of what Patricia Sandoval witnessed first-hand inside a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Sacramento, California, is hard medicine to take, especially for those who refuse to accept it.

Queridos hermanos en el evangelio de este domingo el evangelista Lucas nos presenta la parábola del hombre rico y Lázaro, que nos pone en contacto con el gran peligro que conlleva el egoísmo, o sea, la destrucción del elemento más importante de la creación de Dios, el ser humano.

It was a tangible sign of progress, if there ever was one. A long-time Tulane football fan, one who said he would no longer go to home games because of his mounting frustration, approached a reporter at a high school football game. He had his Tulane football polo on and promptly proclaimed the following: “Roll Wave!”

At a Sept. 10 awards ceremony at Kenner’s Pontchartrain Center, 13 Catholic elementary schools and eight Catholic high schools received grants from the Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation that will help their students conduct service-learning projects this school year.