The public viewing was scheduled to end late April 25 with another prayer service to close the coffin. Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican press office, said the Mass originally scheduled for the ...

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Fascinating insights from Jari Honora, a genealogist with the Historic New Orleans Collection, about Pope Leo XIV's New Orleans Creole roots. His maternal grandparents were Creole Catholics of color ...

For many years St. Christopher School in Metairie has participated in Cross Catholic Outreach’s “Box of Joy” program to send Christmas gifts to children in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, ...

There are many ways to mark the march of our lives through time. I think of my grandparents scraping together the most meager of financial resources to make the trips from greater Italy and Sicily as ...

Congratulations to sixth grader Olivia Yi from Our Lady of Lourdes in Slidell, for making it to the state level of the Knights of Columbus sponsored “Keep Christ in Christmas” contest. Not only did ...

Thirty-three seventh graders from Ursuline Academy took a field trip to the Green Project M.E.S.S. Lab (math, English, social studies and science) in New Orleans on April 29 to learn about recycling ...

Today, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, a pivotal event in the history of our salvation. After completing his mission on earth, Jesus ascends into heaven – not as an act of ...

Welcome to the season when sneakers trade places with flip-flops and report-card jitters make way for mosquito bites and sunburn. It’s tempting to swap one kind of busy for another, school drop-off ...

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 ...