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Jesuit cross country coach Cullen Doody and St. Scholastica swim coach Chris Prator have been selected as the Allstate Sugar Bowl’s Prep Coaches of the Year.

54 men and women identified by their alma maters as exemplars of the values taught in Catholic schools were honored recently by the archdiocese.

The Sacred Heart Brothers and Congregation of St. Joseph sisters decided to share resources in a common residence.

Become a House of Peace and pray for your neighbor. This effort, begun by Dean and HollyKem Sunseri, hopes to take back New Orleans from violence one block at a time.

The largest, Black Catholic fraternal organization in the world held its national convention in New Orleans and included all its divisions and the Ladies Auxiliary.

An Ursuline Academy elective, STEM for Others, had students learning how to construct a boat sail and then donating it to a subsistence fisherman in Haiti.

Deacon Shelly's funeral will be held Friday, July 21 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 411 N. Rampart St., New Orleans, with visitation beginning at 8 a.m.,rosary at 9 a.m. with NOFD Final Alarm tribute, and Mass at 10 a.m.

CYO Youth Ministers Forum will be held Aug. 19 from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Local efforts are being made to educate people about the 5 1/2 million people trafficked in the United States every year - many right here in Louisiana - and to provide safe houses for them and share these methods in other states.

Clarion Herald business manager Mark Lombard writes poignantly about his son Matthew, whose brain cancer diagnosis has forced him to reassess his life.

Benedictine Father Gregory Boquet was elected the sixth abbot of the Benedictine community of St. Joseph Abbey on July 14.

Academy of Our Lady’s campers and children who attend sporting events at the Marrero high school have a beautiful new space in which to play.

Dominican Father Manuel Solorzano-Zerpa is named the new director of the Hispanic Apostolate of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. He takes over from his fellow Dominican priest, Father Sergio Serrano, who served for 10 years.

George Butterfield, who is retired from Creighton University, gives us a reflection on the homily for the weekend of July 8-9. Creighton is a Jesuit university in Omaha, Nebraska.

Father Richard Miles, the former pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) Church in Kenner, who died June 15 at the age of 80 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after having served for 39 years as a priest of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

Father Billy O'Riordan, who served as Archdiocese of New Orleans director of seminarians for the last nine years, has been succeeded by Father David Ducote, pastor of St. Joan of Arc, LaPlace.

The Office of Marriage and Family Life sponsored its 60th annual Golden Wedding Anniversary celebration June 25 with Archbishop Gregory Aymond as presider. 129 couples married in 1973 or earlier participated in the prayer service.

For the last nine years, Sister of Mount Carmel Beth Fitzpatrick has served as head of the archdiocesan Office of Religious, where she has been a point person for the dozens of congregations of religious men and women who serve in a vast array of ministries. She (stepped down June 30).

Sister of the Holy Family Sylvia Thibodaux and historian Dr. Virginia Gould traveled to Rome in January to meet Hilgeman, who had been recommended by Cardinal Peter Turkson because of his credentials and his current work in promoting other sainthood causes.