The lull following the LHSAA’s decision to retain separate football playoffs is over. Catholic and private school principals have spoken loudly and clearly. They want to control their collective destinies, hopefully within the Louisiana High School Athletic Association’s structure.

The more I think about it, the more I arrive at this conclusion: this summer, the New Orleans Saints should be training in Louisiana. The Greenbrier in West Virginia sounds like a great place. The climate is temperate.

On the feast of St. Joseph, patron saint of the universal church and Jesus’ earthly father, Pope Francis urged all dads in the world to stick by their children’s side, teaching them, guiding them and loving them.

The picture of her son Dale rests on the wall of Tessie Trosclair’s home in Norco. Dale was 16 and studying to be a priest at St. Joseph’s Seminary College in 1966. He was the unofficial “fire chief” of the seminary, responsible for driving the fire truck and coordinating any first response to the occasional brushfire.

You’ve spoken a lot about vocations since you returned to the archdiocese in 2009. Why? I have no doubt there are many young men being called to the priesthood and women and men called to religious life in this archdiocese who have not yet heard the call.

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Tercer Domingo de Cuaresma Marzo 23, 2014 Jn 4: 5-42 Este episodio de la Samaritana es uno de los pasajes mas hermosos del Evangelio de Juan. Nos revela una nueva dimensión de Jesús: la manera como hablaba con las personas en privado, y como parte de realidades simples para dar el entendimiento de las realidades divinas.

Archbishop Rummel’s summer camp, set on the sprawling Metairie campus at 1901 Severn Ave., will celebrate its 43rd year of operation in 2014. “The camp has a long-standing tradition; we haven’t changed much because the formula we have works,” said Kevin Carrigee, a 1992 Rummel graduate who attended the camp beginning at age 5 and worked his way through the ranks as a junior counselor, adult counselor, and now camp director.

St. Stanislaus, the 1854-founded Catholic boys’ school in Bay St. Louis, Miss., has operated its popular “Camp Stanislaus” from its beachfront campus since 1928. In addition to providing boys ages 8-15 with both day camp and residential camp options June 15 through July 12, Camp Stanislaus again will offer a summer program for girls in the same age group from June 15-July 5.

Elmwood Fitness Center, a service of Ochsner, will operate three special-interest camps this summer, each geared toward providing children with summer fun while keeping them physically fit. One way to beat the heat this summer is the double-sided, inflatable water slide that has two rock climbs and two slides.

Harry’s Dive Shop in Metairie is gearing up for its popular weeklong “SCUBA Ranger” camps introducing boys and girls ages 8 and older to the fundamentals of SCUBA diving. “Each child has to like the water and be comfortable in it.

Immaculate Conception’s “ICS Summer Camp” offers a variety of activities geared toward sparking the creativity and a spirit of friendly competition among boys and girls ages 3-12 – all in the warm and loving atmosphere of the Salesian-founded school campus in Marrero.

Ivanov’s Gymnastics Academy offers year-round classes in all the essential gymnastic and tumbling activities, but what Larisa Ivanova says separates the summer program she and her husband Anatoly have run for the last 15 years is the flexibility it offers parents.

Home economist Paula Hardin knows how to make sewing fun. For close to 40 years, she has taught countless adults and teens the benefits of knowing how to sew, crochet, design and sew curtains and more.

Todd Huddleston knows what martial arts training can do to change a child’s life because he knows what it did for him. “I’m a living example of that,” said Huddleston, who has run Yonsei Martial Arts Academy in Kenner since 1999.

Camp Marymount, a Catholic boarding camp on 340 acres near Nashville, Tenn., is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and it plans to celebrate its deep connections with the New Orleans area with an adult fund-raising event April 12 in New Orleans.

Loyola New Orleans head basketball coach Mike Giorlando will host his 11th annual basketball camp in June at the Loyola University Sports Complex on the corner of Calhoun and Freret streets. “We get a variety of skill levels,” said Giorlando, who also serves as Loyola’s athletic director.

Summer camp at St. Martin’s Episcopal offers something for every child over nine weeks this summer. “We have a very diverse range of camps from athletic camps, theme camps and science camps,” St. Martin’s Summer Experience camp director Christina Spako said.

The doors of St. Katharine Drexel Prep will be wide open this summer to greet scores of female students from across the city who will participate in programs ranging from academic enrichment, athletics, dance, cheerleading and career mentorship.

Included in the March 22, 2014 issue of the Clarion Herald is its annual Summer Activities special section. Listings of various camps at Catholic elementary and high schools throughout the archdiocese are listed, followed by special activity camps categorized in alphabetical order by type.