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On the heels of previous multiscreen exhibits that brought to life the art of Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet, a new exhibition – “Titanic: An Immersive Voyage – Through the Eyes of the Passengers” – calls to mind the heroism and spiritual fortitude displayed by three Catholic priests who perished while providing spiritual solace in the midst of chaos.

Hoping to fill the void for a book geared to younger children explaining the origin of the St. Joseph Altar tradition, Jesuit High School graduate Joseph Ruli’s “Giovanni and the Fava Beans: The Story of the St. Joseph Altar” was published last September by Word on Fire publishing.

Greg Raymond encouraged the 560 men at the Archdiocese of New Orleans Men’s Conference March 15 to use the power of confession, the Blessed Mother and the Eucharist to step up and change a fallen world.

The annual Silver Wedding Anniversary celebration, sponsored by the Office of Marriage and Family Life of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, was held Feb. 16 at Our Lady of the Rosary in New Orleans.

Students in Crissy Giacona’s eighth-grade physical science honors class at St. Mary’s Dominican High School are learning that the sky’s the limit as they embark on in-class flying lessons with the school’s newly acquired flight simulator.

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.

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

Hope and Purpose Ministries will host its annual gathering on Feb. 15, with this year’s theme inspired by 2 Corinthians 3:18, which reads, “All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord who is the Spirit.”

St. Mary’s Dominican freshman Sophia Salvaggio recently earned the highest honor in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), the Eagle Scout rank, as a member of Troop 117 in Metairie.

On Dec. 7, 1961, 15-year-old Eduardo Aguirre took a Pan Am Constellation prop plane from Havana to Miami as an “unaccompanied minor.” He had a dime in his pocket.

He’s back! That would be John Serio, the legendary Catholic school teacher and administrator known by almost everyone in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, in part because of his booming Gentilly voice that has the supersonic ability to travel across several zip codes at the speed of light.

When Deacon Louie Bauer of St. Margaret Mary Parish in Slidell was preparing to be ordained as a permanent deacon in 2006, he never expected the archdiocese to assign him to serve in a recovery facility for addicts and alcoholics, a place he said parents tell you to stay away from.

Adrian Jackson, director of the CYO/Youth and Young Adult Ministry for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, said he hopes the 51st March for Life Pilgrimage, scheduled for Jan. 24, 2025, will inspire Catholic youth from New Orleans to become voices for the voiceless.