The chess team of St. Catherine of Siena School, coached by Chris McKinnie, won the Louisiana State Scholastic Chess Championships in May, led by third-grader Andrew Ochs, who captured the ...

But in many ways for me, the church has been the place where my life, the family my wife and I have grown and our extended families have been marked through the sacraments – baptisms, confirmations, ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Centuries of experience dealing with the death, or occasional resignation, of a pope has left the Catholic Church with thorough instructions detailing who has responsibility for ...

During Black History Month, a local group of Catholic high school students wanted to share facts about Black historical figures during the morning announcements. Their first choice was Emmett Till, ...

When middle-school parents and faculty at St. Andrew the Apostle School in Algiers found out the Community Center for Life in Gretna was in desperate need of diapers because a long-time supplier could ...

In prayer, piety and liturgy, God is referred to as “Father.” This empowers us to use our most noble understanding of parenthood to better understand God. From there we are free to use the ...

When I was praying through the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, my spiritual director and I decided to pause for a couple of weeks during Advent so I could focus on the daily readings leading up ...

Al celebrar la gran fiesta de la Pascua, la resurrección de Cristo de entre los muertos, recordémosla como la fiesta más solemne que celebramos cada año. El Cristo Resucitado, viene a traer su luz a ...

Let’s just say it was a lot tastier than digging up bones. Thirty students in Stephany Cure’s third-grade science class at Visitation of Our Lady School in Marrero experienced firsthand what it takes ...

Fifty-five men and women religious marking milestone anniversaries of ordination or religious profession attended the annual Jubilee Mass of Thanksgiving celebrated by Archbishop Gregory Aymond April ...

For the last three years, the seventh-grade students from St. Christopher the Martyr School in Metairie – with the help of their parents and a few volunteers – have been responsible for the school’s ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Cardinals already present in Rome and those who were able to get to the city after Pope Francis' death April 21 held their first meeting at the Vatican April 22. About 60 ...