• Catholic high school open houses run through November
    Catholic high school open houses run through November
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    Catholic High School Open Houses 2019
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  • 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time: What’s in a word?
    29th Sunday in Ordinary Time: What’s in a word?
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    Some 40 years ago, Daniel Everett mastered what is perhaps one of the only human languages with no descriptive words for colors, past or future, and, most amazingly, with no words to express numbers.
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  • Mount Carmel: Virtual touch is hands-on knowledge
    Mount Carmel: Virtual touch is hands-on knowledge
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    Mount Carmel Academy students  are gaining a deeper understanding of health sciences than ever before through use of zSpace virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).
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  • Raiders’ ‘Red Wall’ chasing an 83-year-old record
    Raiders’ ‘Red Wall’ chasing an 83-year-old record
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    In 1936, the average cost of a new house was $3,925. Gasoline was 10 cents a gallon for your new $665 Studebaker automobile, assuming you earned an annual salary of about $1,713. That year, Margaret Mitchell’s epic story of the old South, “Gone With the Wind,” was published.
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  • Teen Vogue abortion campaign hits motherly nerve
    Teen Vogue abortion campaign hits motherly nerve
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    What kind of country are we living in that something as vile, risky and life-altering as abortion is celebrated and encouraged? It is bad enough that adults are lured into having abortions, but to brainwash young women into joining this murderous cult is really alarming.
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  • Imagine having no place to call home
    Imagine having no place to call home
    by Jonelle Foltz
    Just imagine for a moment that you have no home. What will you do for meals today? Where will you shower? Where will you sleep? If you have children, how will you provide for them? And how will you cope with being homeless tomorrow, next week, next month?
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  • Pope: Christian battle is against evil, not people
    Pope: Christian battle is against evil, not people
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    When Catholics attack other members of the church, they are hurting Christ, Pope Francis said. “Even those who are ideologists, because they want the ‘purity’ of the church, strike at Christ,” he said during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 9.
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  • Dominican Sisters of Peace celebrate their 10th anniversary
    Dominican Sisters of Peace celebrate their 10th anniversary
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    The Dominican Sisters of Peace celebrated their 10th anniversary as a congregation formed in 2009 through the merger of eight congregations of Dominican sisters and lay associates from across the U.S.
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  • Outdoor classroom at St. Margaret Mary a breath of fresh air
    Outdoor classroom at St. Margaret Mary a breath of fresh air
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    “Teacher, can we have class outside?” It’s a question generations of students have asked their teachers in a mostly futile bid to get out of the classroom on a beautiful day.
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  • Rainbow of leadership styles should point to Jesus
    Rainbow of leadership styles should point to Jesus
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    School leaders from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama gathered for faith formation and leadership building Oct. 9-11 at the 53rd annual Administrators’ Conference, “Navigating the Waters of Leadership,” in Baton Rouge.
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  • Holy Cross Kindergartners earn national kudos for NOLA-inspired alphabet book
    Holy Cross Kindergartners earn national kudos for NOLA-inspired alphabet book
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    The 19 students who made up last year’s kindergarten class at Holy Cross Primary School can lay claim to a rare distinction: each is a published author and illustrator.
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  • Sister Angela Smith brought joy, faith to children
    Sister Angela Smith brought joy, faith to children
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    Holy Family Sister Angela Smith, a 24-year principal of Holy Ghost School on Louisiana Avenue and recent campus minister at St. Mary’s Academy, had slogans she recited daily to teachers and students.
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  • Our seminaries offer superb priestly formation
    Our seminaries offer superb priestly formation
    by Site Administrator
    Last week you held Board of Trustees meetings for St. Joseph Seminary College and Notre Dame Seminary. How did those meetings go?
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  • Ministry, ecology, mission are main early synod themes
    Ministry, ecology, mission are main early synod themes
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    VATICAN CITY (CNS) –The first week of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon saw support for the priestly ordination of married indigenous men, impassioned pleas for respect for indigenous culture and denunciations of violence against the earth.
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  • Pope jumps on Saints’ bandwagon?
    Pope jumps on Saints’ bandwagon?
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    VATICAN CITY (CNS) – A hashtag mix-up caused a papal tweet meant to give thanks for the Catholic Church’s newest saints to be read as Pope Francis showing support for the New Orleans Saints’ football team.
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  • Valdez listened to daughter and went to St. James
    Valdez listened to daughter and went to St. James
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    He was happy as the head coach at Scotlandville High School. His team had won 10 games only to lose 42-41 to Mandeville in a regional round 5A playoff classic. Then, Robert Valdez’s youngest daughter, Raina, now 16, spoke up.
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  • Banners unfurled as faithful share stories of five saints
    Banners unfurled as faithful share stories of five saints
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    VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Vatican hung banners of the Catholic Church’s newly canonized saints four days before the Mass that officially recognized they are in heaven with God.
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  • LIM retreat reflects on Fr. Thomas Berry
    LIM retreat reflects on Fr. Thomas Berry
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    The Loyola Institute for Ministry (LIM) will host a morning of prayer and reflection Nov. 2 with a creation-centered focus informed by the work of the late Passionist Father Thomas Berry, a noted cultural historian, ecologist and theologian.
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  • Nuestros seminarios ofrecen una excelente formación sacerdotal
    Nuestros seminarios ofrecen una excelente formación sacerdotal
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    La semana pasada, celebró reuniones con la Junta de Consejeros del St. Joseph Seminary College y Notre Dame Seminary. ¿Cómo fueron esas reuniones?
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  • Who Dat say dey god’s child? We dat, says St. Louis King of France!
    Who Dat say dey god’s child? We dat, says St. Louis King of France!
    by Site Administrator
    Students, faculty and staff at St. Louis King of France School in Metairie made “Child of God” headbands earlier this month to show their support for Demario Davis, the New Orleans Saints linebacker fined by the NFL for wearing a headband professing his values and beliefs as a disciple of God. On Oct. 8, the school community was invited to wear their headband and favorite Saints shirt to campus for a group photo. Davis later learned that his fine had been canceled. Videos on the students’ show of solidarity for the free expression of religious belief went viral both locally and nationwide, even airing in England.
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