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Spring has officially sprung, it seems. The disorderly weather seems to confuse the natural world: last week, we were in shorts; now, we’re back in morning jackets and long sleeves.

I had the privilege of traveling with my brothers from St. Augustine High School Jan. 18-25 on a trip that focused on following the Underground Railroad and connecting with God, which quickly became a transformative experience.

Today, particularly in the South, the Great American Game is football, perhaps in any form. And that hasn’t gone unnoticed by the Louisiana High School Athletic Association, whose executive committee has given preliminary approval for a new sport to be sanctioned in 2028.

Ascension of Our Lord (AOL) School in LaPlace, which staved off closure in 2024 through the efforts of parents, will close at the end of May because of declining enrollment trends and finances, officials of the Archdiocese of New Orleans said.

Marking 10 years of aiding local faith-based charities, the Women’s Giving Circle (WGC) is a group of 203 women who pool resources, share visions for humanitarian impact and uplift the community through collaborative grant giving.

St. Michael Special School has a lot to celebrate in 2025, especially its 60th birthday after being founded in 1965 by School Sister of Notre Dame Lillian McCormack.

During Lent, God calls us to look at ourselves and to identify at least one weakness and a temptation that can lead to sin.

New Orleanians suffer from a rare but accurately diagnosed disease of hypercritical self-analysis, so much so that when an actual grand slam disappears deep into the Mississippi River, we often have the urge to doubt what we have just witnessed.

When the world is spinning out of control to the point where it shakes a person’s faith, that’s the exact moment God can offer the hope that the world cannot give, Catholic evangelist Mary Bielski told 200 people who attended the Hope & Purpose Ministries’ Annual Gathering Feb. 15 at Divine Mercy Church in Kenner

Inspiration and connection were the driving forces for the most recent addition to the newly renovated motherhouse at Mount Carmel Academy. The high school announced the installation of 17 art pieces donated by alumnae, current and former teachers and a Sister, residing in the art and music hallways of the motherhouse.

I bet there have been times that you, like me, have experienced that empty feeling that you do not belong here, that you are an unwelcomed person – persona non grata.

With the Super Bowl in town this weekend and Mardi Gras just around the corner, there are thousands of tourists in New Orleans hoping to have fun and laissez les bon temps rouler! Some, however, are up to nefarious things.

It’s hard to believe that seven years have passed since a girls’ basketball team from an Archdiocese of New Orleans school has won a state basketball championship.

If there is anything the storm-tossed parishioners of St. Anthony Parish in Lafitte know all too well, it is the importance of persevering in faith while they await the joy of rebirth.