Welcome to one of the biggest Sundays in recent Saints’ regular-season history. The Saints, unbeaten at home in the playoffs in the Sean Payton era, have a chance to be the No. 1 seed in the NFC with a win over the unbeaten (8-0) Los Angeles Rams.

As a volunteer since 2013 at The National World War II Museum in downtown New Orleans, I have been giving hands-on presentations with artifacts in the education department. My work also has included helping with summer camps. 

Attention boutique owners! Now that I have got your attention, I have a dire request: Can you please keep dresses that are appropriate for tweens and teens to wear to church in your inventory?

I expect all hands to be on deck on Nov. 7, the date that schools of the Louisiana High School Athletic Association below Class 5A declare their intentions to remain in their respective classes or to “play up.”

Every heart longs for unconditional love and fidelity, Pope Francis said. “Christ reveals authentic love,” the pope said Oct. 24 during his weekly general audience. “He is the faithful friend who welcomes us even when we make mistakes, and he always wants what is best for us, even when we don’t deserve it,” he said.

After celebrating All Saints’ Day Mass af Our Lady of the Rosary Church in New Orleans on Nov. 1, Archbishop Gregory Aymond blessed the tombs on the other side of Esplanade Avenue in St. Louis Cemetery No. 3, accompanied by Father Jonathan Hemelt, pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Archdiocese releases names of clergy removed from ministry for allegations of sexual abuse of a minor

La Arquidiócesis, da a conocer los nombres de los miembros del clero retirados del ministerio, por acusaciones de abuso sexual de un menor

Due to construction delays caused by inclement weather, the dedication and blessing of Queen of All Saints Cremation Garden at St. Patrick Cemetery No. 3, originally scheduled for Nov. 20, has been postponed until March 21, 2019, at 1 p.m. A butterfly release will follow the blessing.

What’s in a name? The Catholic Foundation, founded in the mid-1970s by the late Archbishop Philip M. Hannan to serve as a planned-giving vehicle to fund Catholic entities and causes in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, believes there’s added value in one extra word.

Three hundred thirty-one employees of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans – another 200 staffers had to work – gathered Oct. 26 in Kenner for a staff convocation day in which the watchwords were “inspire, innovate, empower.” Auxiliary Bishop Fernand Cheri used the famous passage from 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 to illustrate the love that each Catholic Charities employee displays in his or her ministry.

From being born to parents who were slaves to now being celebrated as a Servant of God in the Catholic Church, Father Augustus Tolton exemplifies how a person of strong faith can change lives and the world. 

“Let us be spurred on by the signs of holiness that the Lord shows us through the humblest members of that people which “shares also in Christ’s prophetic office, spreading abroad a living witness to him, especially by means of a life of faith and charity”. We should consider the fact that, as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross suggests, real history is made by so many of them. As she writes: “The greatest figures of prophecy and sanctity step forth out of the darkest night. But for the most part, the formative stream of the mystical life remains invisible.

Dominican’s Kelsey Major (18:58), left, and Brother Martin’s Scott Appleton (15:43), right, won the two divisions of the District 9-5A cross country meet at the City Park course on Oct. 25.