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I never gave much thought to reaching the end of a journey because I was too immersed in the trip. But it appears that I have.

State and division championships were plentiful for New Orleans-area Catholic schools during the 2024-25 sports seasons as history tended to repeat itself.

Imagine, if you will, placing all the best athletes from Jesuit, Brother Martin, Holy Cross and St. Augustine into one Orleans Parish Catholic school. And maybe add a few gifted athletes from De La Salle for good measure.

Holy Cross School has named Brad Humphreys as principal for the 2025-26 academic year. He will assume his new position on July 1.

If local Catholic school athletes are going to reap gold medals at the May 10 state Class 5A track and field meet, they will have to do it with their legs.

Even before the all-girls’ schools of the Archdiocese of New Orleans joined the Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA), they were capable of beating the state’s best public schools.

Mitchell Johnson has a message for his 2025-26 Archbishop Shaw basketball prospects: “Be ready to work ... hard and smart.”

The April 24 District 9-5A track and field championship is just around the corner, and Catholic school runners used the April 11 Chubby Marks meet to lower their times.

When the synthetic running track was constructed at City Park’s Tad Gormley Stadium in 1992, it and the stadium in which it was installed presented a world-class venue for the U.S. Olympic Trials.

In this week's column, Peter Finney Jr. interviews Byron Johnson, director of Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion and author of "More God, Less Crime," about the faith-based projects he initiated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola years ago.

It only figures that Arch “Beaver” Aplin III, the founder of Buc-ee’s, went to Texas A&M.

When Debbie Fagnano, 70, was an infant, her father Eugene would climb the stairs to the choir loft at Our Lady of Grace Church in Fairview, New Jersey – just across the Hudson River from midtown Manhattan – with his babe in arms.

One of the many blessings of my work as editor of a Catholic newspaper is to travel occasionally with members of the Archdiocese of New Orleans on pilgrimages to seminal Catholic sites across the world.

Christian Brother Gale Condit is 82 now, and his life as a lion tamer turned Catholic school educator has blessed him with a deep reservoir of wisdom, prudence and humor that can be built only by daily rubbing elbows with teenage boys and girls who sometimes don’t know which end is up or whom to trust.

The late Dominican Father Val McInnes would have loved the cozy, purposely understated, four-day meeting in New Orleans last week of some of North America’s most avid patrons of sacred art.

Each of us has moaned at some point about receiving a jury duty notice, compelling, under the force of law, our appearance as potential jurors.

For the last 20 years, my Monday morning schedule included a quick check-in with Ed Daniels, who wrote a sports column for the Clarion Herald and who at the time of his unexpected death at the age of 67 was the longest-tenured sportscaster in New Orleans.