• Calendar — July 11, 2024
    Calendar — July 11, 2024
    Events in the Archdiocese from July 11 to August 23, 2024. Please send event announcements two weeks before each issue to calendar@clarionherald.org NEXT ISSUE: July 20, 2024
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  • Louisiana bishops’ 2024 legislative recap
    Louisiana bishops’ 2024 legislative recap
    by Thomas Costanza
    The Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops (LCCB) recently completed its work during the 2024 legislative session. The LCCB followed a process of discernment, reflection and prayer through the lens of Catholic social teaching.
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  • Local newspaper spearheaded All-Star baseball tryout
    Local newspaper spearheaded All-Star baseball tryout
    by Ron Brocato
    During the 1940s, not only did New Orleans’ prep schools sweep the state rally championship games, but the runners-up were also Crescent City schools over that 10-year span.
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  • Brother Martin grad helps  in Gulf rescue mission
    Brother Martin grad helps in Gulf rescue mission
    by Kim Roberts
    It started out as a normal June morning at sea for Brother Martin graduate and Texas A&M Maritime Academy cadet William Flores, but things started moving very quickly during a life-saving rescue of three Cubans adrift at sea for 15 days.
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  • Pilgrim peace manifested at Medjugorje
    Pilgrim peace manifested at Medjugorje
    by Peter Finney Jr.
    Among the 1 million people who annually travel to Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina, most go with no expectation of a physical healing or witnessing a supernatural experience that can’t be explained.
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  • St. Gertrude plants seeds for future of faith
    St. Gertrude plants seeds for future of faith
    by Jonelle Foltz
    The final Mass of St. Gertrude the Great Parish was celebrated June 30 in Des Allemands by Father Ray Hymel, St. Gertrude’s pastor.
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  • Sadness at Our Lady Star of the Sea
    Sadness at Our Lady Star of the Sea
    by Peter Finney Jr.
    It was a difficult closing Mass celebrated Sunday by Franciscan Father Francis Kamau for Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish in the St. Roch neighborhood.
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  • St. Gabriel: ‘Become a cornerstone’ of greatness
    St. Gabriel: ‘Become a cornerstone’ of greatness
    by Peter Finney Jr.
    St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish celebrated its closing Mass June 30 and went out in a rousing way.
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  • St. Bonaventure: ‘We are being called to our next chapter’
    St. Bonaventure: ‘We are being called to our next chapter’
    by Kim Roberts
    St. Bonaventure Parish in Avondale celebrated its final Mass June 30, with Father Francis Offia, pastor presiding.
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  • St. James Major Church packed for final Mass
    St. James Major Church packed for final Mass
    by Peter Finney Jr.
    St. James Major Parish in Gentilly closed its rich history book on 104 years of parish life June 30 with about 500 people – many of them former parishioners – packing the church on Gentilly Boulevard in New Orleans for the 10 a.m. Mass celebrated by Father Michael Labre.
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  • St. Theresa of Avila finds home for Blessed Mother
    St. Theresa of Avila finds home for Blessed Mother
    by Peter Finney Jr.
    St. Theresa of Avila Church – founded as a parish in 1848 and serving for decades as a Catholic stronghold for Spanish-speaking Catholics – officially closed June 30 with a prayer service conducted by Father Lance Campo, pastor.
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  • Abp. Aymond: Feed the flock with the Eucharist
    Abp. Aymond: Feed the flock with the Eucharist
    by Archbishop Gregory Aymond
    Archbishop Gregory Aymond offered a personal summary of the summer meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in Louisville June 11-14. This is a personal summary, not an official document of the USCCB.
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  • Wedding times, guidelines available through individual churches
    Wedding times, guidelines available through individual churches
    A comprehensive list of wedding times and guidelines available through churches within the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
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  • Official appointments
    Official appointments
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  • Pope: Jesus is the answer to disillusionment
    Pope: Jesus is the answer to disillusionment
    Pope Francis' message, released to German Catholics on May 29.
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  • Purple Knights: D–Day vets carried freedom’s torch
    Purple Knights: D–Day vets carried freedom’s torch
    St. Augustine High School Marching 100 traveled to France to participate in memorial ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of the American landing at Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the offensive that led to the Allies’ victory in WWII.
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  • College scholarships awarded at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish
    College scholarships awarded at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish
    The Scholarship Committee of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in New Orleans awarded $1,000 college scholarships to 10 recent high school graduates. 
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  • Calendar — June 30, 2024
    Calendar — June 30, 2024
    Events in the Archdiocese from June 30 to July 27, 2024. Please send event announcements two weeks before each issue to calendar@clarionherald.org NEXT ISSUE: July 6, 2024
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  • Clarion Herald earns 14 national awards
    Clarion Herald earns 14 national awards
    The Catholic Media Association presented the Clarion Herald with 14 national awards Friday night at the Catholic Media Conference in Atlanta.
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  • Dangerously close to nuclear war – please pay attention!
    Dangerously close to nuclear war – please pay attention!
    Everyone throughout the world, needs to urge President Biden to act in the spirit and example of Jesus – to be a nonviolent peacemaker as his, and our, Catholic faith teaches. Please email him at https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/. - Tony Magliano
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