• Prep basketball playoffs plagued by bad timing
    Prep basketball playoffs plagued by bad timing
    The number of Louisiana prep championship playoffs is unwieldy causing them to be scheduled at odd times with very few in the stands.
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  • Chef Kevin Belton: ‘Love is the secret ingredient’
    Chef Kevin Belton: ‘Love is the secret ingredient’
    Chef Kevin Belton, a graduate of Brother Martin High School in New Orleans, has been making people happy with his food for many years. The PBS and WWL-TV chef shares a few of his Lenten seafood favorites.
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  • Money workshop even more valuable during COVID
    Money workshop even more valuable during COVID
    The Catholic Community Foundation will host a virtual workshop, “It’s Not Your Money, Finding the Peace of Putting God First,” March 24 from 7 to 8:15 p.m.
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  • Collection will help church prepare ‘good, holy’ priests
    Collection will help church prepare ‘good, holy’ priests
    For the first time, Catholics will have the opportunity at all Masses March 20-21 to contribute directly to educating and forming the nearly three dozen men studying for the priesthood for the local church.
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  • St. Patrick's Church on Camp Street: A marvel of sacred architecture
    St. Patrick's Church on Camp Street: A marvel of sacred architecture
    The new Irish Catholic immigrants who came to New Orleans in the 1800s wanted a church where God did not speak "only" in French, as at St. Louis Cathedral. The result was St. Patrick Church on Camp Street.
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  • Vatican says no blessing gay unions, no negative judgment on gay people
    Vatican says no blessing gay unions, no negative judgment on gay people
    While homosexual men and women must be respected, any form of blessing a same-sex union is "illicit," said the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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  • Calendar - March 20 - April 2, 2021
    Calendar - March 20 - April 2, 2021
    Events through April 2 (Lent through Easter) Submissions for future issues due two weeks in advance. (Next issue date is April 3 - includes April 3-16 events.)
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  • Sculpture of migrants in flight haunts the soul
    Sculpture of migrants in flight haunts the soul
    "Angels Unawares,” is a bronze sculpture created by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz, and in St. Peter's Square in Rome, since the 2019 World Day of Migrants and Refugees. It depicts 140 migrants and refugees from various lands and all eras of history, a replica of which is on pilgrimage across North America, coming to the front lawn of Notre Dame Seminary for six weeks beginning April 10.
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  • Summer Activities 2021 special section
    Summer Activities 2021 special section
    Parents with young children will find the latest and most in-depth information on summer camps and activities in the Archdiocese of New Orleans for their children.
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  • Iraq visit was ‘sign of hope’ for suffering people
    Iraq visit was ‘sign of hope’ for suffering people
    Pope Francis: “Never before has a pope been in the land of Abraham. Providence willed that this should happen now, as a sign of hope."
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  • Confession ambulance: Driving mercy to the people
    Confession ambulance: Driving mercy to the people
    Community of Jesus Crucified Father Michael Champagne brings to confession opportunities to people where they are.
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  • Thank you, Drew!
    Thank you, Drew!
    When Drew Brees led the New Orleans Saints to victory in Super Bowl XLIV in February 2010, Clarion Herald editor Peter Finney Jr. was in Sun Life Stadium. It was a memory of a lifetime. Here is his column from Feb. 7, 2010.
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  • Tanto amó Dios al mundo, que entregó a su Hijo único
    Tanto amó Dios al mundo, que entregó a su Hijo único
    Father Manuel Solorzano's homily for March 13-14, 2021.
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  • ‘God so loved the world that he gave his only Son’
    ‘God so loved the world that he gave his only Son’
    Father Stephen Dardis, pastor of Holy Family Church in Luling, reflects on the Gospel that will be proclaimed this coming Sunday for the young readers of Kids’ Clarion.
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  • Archdiocese announces number of claims under Chapter 11 filing
    Archdiocese announces number of claims under Chapter 11 filing
    As part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the Archdiocese of New Orleans received approximately 430 commercial claims and approximately 400 sexual abuse claims.  
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  • List of St. Joseph altars in the Archdiocese of New Orleans
    List of St. Joseph altars in the Archdiocese of New Orleans
    Catholic parishes throughout the archdiocese are holding St. Joseph Altars, but with restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • St. Joseph altars – a New Orleans tradition
    St. Joseph altars – a New Orleans tradition
    Sandra Scalise Juneau, who comes from a family tradition of St. Joseph altars, writes a book about altars in New Orleans.
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  • They need us, and we need them!
    They need us, and we need them!
    The vulnerable and poor refugees are only asking what all of us desire: a decent, safe place to live and work.
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  • Mount Carmel Academy becomes STEM-certified
    Mount Carmel Academy becomes STEM-certified
    This all-girls' school earns a STEM certification from Cognia (a merger of AdvancED and Measured Progress).
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  • St. Mary’s Dominican High School Speech and Debate Team Post Wins
    St. Mary’s Dominican High School Speech and Debate Team Post Wins
    St. Mary’s Dominican High School Speech and Debate team posted wins at the Louisiana High School Speech League (LHSSL) February Classic.
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