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Confession has transformed my understanding of God and my understanding of who I am.

Archbishop Aymond reflects on the regional Encuentro V Meeting in Miami and looks ahead with hope for the the future of local Hispanic Catholics.

“You shall not oppress or afflict a resident alien, for you were once aliens residing in the land of Egypt …You shall not wrong any widow or orphan. If ever you wrong them, and they cry out to me, I will surely listen to their cry” (Exodus 22:20-22).

There is a such a need for male spirituality in the Catholic Church today, Father Champagne told the 23rd Men’s Morning of Spirituality Feb. 24 at St. Anthony of Padua Church, that men need to assimilate St. Joseph’s humility, purity and strength in their own lives to become faith leaders within their families.

Three women who participated in a recent Holy Spirit Women’s Retreat in Lafayette sponsored by the Catholic Charismatic Renewal of New Orleans (CCRNO) said they felt relieved of physical pain following a healing service conducted by Scripture scholar Dr. Mary Healy.

Everyone who goes to Mass has the right to hear the word of God in all its fullness, which means it must be read well and explained well with “fervor,” Pope Francis said.

All are welcome to pray with us at 3 pm on Sunday, February 25 at the Hispanic Apostolate in Metairie

Prayer, Fasting, Works of Love for 40 Days” is the theme of the Lenten undertaking for parishioners at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in New Orleans. For the past two years on six Friday evenings of Lent, the parish has offered a simple meal of soup and bread at 6 p.m., followed by Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. in the church. It is called “Soup and Stations.”

A full Saturday of faith-filled talks, live music, Mass and a fair of Catholic exhibitors will roll out on the grounds of St. Joseph Abbey and Seminary College March 17 at the 2018 Abbey Youth Festival.

Fire, floods, yellow fever and a triple murder are all part of the history of St. John the Baptist Church in Edgard, just west of New Orleans on the Mississippi River’s west bank.

"This calls for prayer; it calls for us talking to our kids; it calls for us as religious leaders and teachers in our schools to discuss these things with kids so that they can come to a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the dignity of human life." - Archbishop Aymond

This weekend, the archdiocese celebrated both World Day of Consecrated Life, bringing together over 150 men and women religious and Rite of Election for the nearly 400 people on the journey to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church at Easter.

"To directly address the harms of pornography and to provide resources to support and protect individuals, marriages and families in overcoming pornography and making their homes safe, I am asking all parishes to celebrate, for the first time, “Safe Haven Sunday” beginning with the first Sunday of Lent." - Archbishop Gregory Aymond

Being in solidarity with people from a different culture is one reason Xavier University of Louisiana’s Office of Campus Ministry has organized its inaugural mission trip to Honduras this summer.

As we abstain from meat on Friday's during Lent, head to a local parish fish fry.

For many in New Orleans East living near Chef Menteur Highway, Feb. 7, 2017, is a date remembered alongside Hurricane Katrina’s landfall on Aug. 29, 2005.

Singing at Mass surely had to have fostered the Catholic faith of the Ursuline nuns who came to New Orleans in 1727 as missionary educators of girls in French Louisiana. But now music historians can speculate that some of those hymns might also have helped to alleviate the sisters’ homesickness, having been set to familiar secular tunes originally composed in their native France.

After a $3.5 million restoration – some of it reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) – the Christian Life Center has been transformed from a dowdy, 50-year-old facility in need of serious attention into a sleek, retrofitted building with fewer but more spacious rooms designed with married couples in mind.