An exhibit of memorabilia from the three religious communities that established the cluster of schools, churches, convents and orphanages in New Orleans’ Irish Channel is open to the public at St. Alphonsus Church, 2025 Constance St.

The new gardens at Metairie Manor were doused with a very potent fertilizer – holy water – during their June 4 dedication to the memory of Thomas Perkins Sr., who served for 31 years as the first executive director of Christopher Homes.

Due to road construction around Our Lady of the Sacred Heart on St. Bernard Avenue, Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans (CCANO) Food for Families/Food for Seniors food box distribution normally held at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart will be moved to UNO Lakefront Arena’s north side parking lot in the month of June.

Fathers of all types – biological, role models, father figures, coaches – were recognized for making a difference in the lives of children June 14 at the fourth annual Favorite Fathers Awards  “Celebrating Our Fathers” held at Loyola University New Orleans.

“We are all kids of immigrants,” Sister of Social Service Simone Campbell said while visiting New Orleans June 6 as part of the “Nuns on the Bus” immigration reform tour, “A Drive for Faith, Family and Citizenship.”

They fled their homeland, like the Holy Family, looking for a better life. Alejandra Luna’s mother is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico.

NEW ORLEANS – Our Lady of Holy Cross College (OLHCC) announces that it has been removed from censure by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). In an overwhelming positive vote, taken after a site visit and renewed commitment on OLHCC's part to organizational policy, AAUP voted June 15 to clear the college at its annual meeting in Washington, DC.

Betty Schouest LeBlanc, a 1962 graduate of Immaculata High School, recently retired after 41 years of service to Immaculata and Academy of Our Lady high schools. The school presented her with a retirement gift.

Funeral services for Edmundite Father Michael Jacques, pastor of St. Peter Claver Church who died June 7, are as follows: ► June 13, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.: Prayer service for parishioners and priests, St. Peter Claver Church, 1923 St. Philip St., New Orleans.

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The Archdiocese of New Orleans has established an office, headed by Father Salvador Galvez, that will provide pastoral care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) persons, Archbishop Gregory Aymond said May 31.

The Gospel is messy business. Night after night in the early 1990s, Edmundite Father Michael Jacques tried coaxing himself to sleep in his rectory bedroom to the left of St. Peter Claver Church in New Orleans.

The funeral Mass for Edmundite Father Michael Jacques, who died Friday of complications from heart surgery, will be celebrated by Archbishop Gregory Aymond on Saturday, June 15, at St. Peter Claver Church, 1923 St. Philip St., New Orleans.

If having to compete in a football division with 2012 championship finalists John Curtis and Evangel was bad enough for St. Charles Catholic and De La Salle, the situation worsened for the two local Catholic schools on Thursday.

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BATON ROUGE – Setting aside its constitution and bylaws for the moment, it appears that the Louisiana High School Athletic Association’s Executive Committee will approve a measure to combine classes 5A and 4A into one playoff division for the 2013 post season.

Sometimes, compassion means business. When Dr. R. Daniel Jacob and several other local doctors got together with businessman Fred Mikill in 2002, they were looking for the most effective way to share their healing talents in South and Latin American countries with little access to life-changing surgeries.

Mike Diedling has read about miracles in the Bible, but it’s the real-life miracles he and his wife Judi witness every year as the local coordinating couple for Retrouvaille, a Catholic-based program for marriages in serious turmoil, that give meaning to their decision to spend the last 20 years helping save marriages.

Serving prison time produces utter isolation, especially  for inmates whose family members may be angry that their son – or brother or uncle – committed a crime to cause that separation. Deacon Carlo Maniglia, who began prison ministry at Orleans Parish Prison just after his ordination last December, wondered how he might be able to bridge that gap in some small way.

It took an army of hands and generous hearts to complete the restoration of the former Louis Charbonnet family residence at 1839 St. Philip St. in New Orleans into the shiny, food pantry and social ministry headquarters of St. Peter Claver Parish.