Archbishop Aymond gives his pastoral care amid the latest COVID spike.

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“The alarm bells are deafening,” he further warned. “And the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.

It took 26-year-old Lego architect Rocco Buttliere three months to create a masterpiece – a 67,000-piece replica of Vatican City. He came to New Orleans to show it off.

LaVergne Monette, a local soprano, still sings on occasion at local churches.

Colorful look at 2021 high school football gearing up.

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Fourteen contest-winning images taken inside the city’s historic burial grounds will be immortalized in New Orleans Catholic Cemeteries’ 2022 wall calendar.

Dominican Friar Manuel Solorzano writes his homily in Spanish for the weekend of Aug. 14-15.

Heather Bozant Witcher, mother of three small children, decided to no longer fret as her twins developed at different rates. She is now enjoying each moment with them.

Christine Bordelon, associate editor at the Clarion Herald, reflects on her daughter getting married at St. Louis Cathedral.

Students in grades 8-12 who attend a Catholic school, Parish School of Religion or a Catholic homeschooling program will take a brief survey at the beginning of the school year to measure their Mass attendance and understanding of the Eucharist.

Three Catholic high school students were selected to learn how government works as a member of 2021-22 Louisiana Youth Advisory Council (LYAC).

Living a life with faith and integrity earned Lynn Coatney Loyola University New Orleans' prestigious Integritas Vitae award. She will be honored Aug. 13.

The Archdiocese of New Orleans adopts new Safe Environment program to protect children and vulnerable adults.

Pope Francis declared: “The use of atomic energy for purposes of war is immoral, just as the possessing of nuclear weapons is immoral, as I already said two years ago. We will be judged on this” (see: https://cutt.ly/Ne1emEG).

Pope Francis wrote the homily for the first World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly Mass July 25 in St. Peter's Basilica, celebrated by Archbishop Rino Fisichella. “Let us protect them, so that nothing of their lives and dreams may be lost. May we never regret that we were insufficiently attentive to those who loved us and gave us life."

Kevin Avin, the recently retired headmaster of Stuart Hall for Boys in New Orleans, has learned a thing or two about how to educate young men in his four decades of service to two Catholic, all-boys schools.

La Asociación Nacional de Músicos Pastorales, que apoya la formación de ministros de música, instrumentistas y, miembros del coro en las Iglesias Católicas de todo el país, celebró su conferencia anual en Nueva Orleáns la semana pasada.

Friar Manuel Solorzano writes his homily for the Masses the weekend of Aug. 7-8.