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New scholarship opportunities for locals at Ave Maria

Published on Wednesday, 21 January 2015 10:17 |

Written by Christine Bordelon |

Five college scholarships specifically for New Orleans-area high school graduates are now available at Ave Maria University, a Catholic liberal arts college in Florida.

Teens need to know truth about religion, science

Published on Wednesday, 21 January 2015 10:24 |

Written by Beth Donze |

STREAM, the St. Mary's Dominican High initiative integrating the study of science, technology, religion, engineering, the arts and math, could not have come at more pivotal time in the life of the teen and young-adult church.

Faith, science have truths that support each other

Published on Wednesday, 21 January 2015 10:18 |

Written by Beth Donze |

Teachers at St. Mary’s Dominican High School are being immersed in the many ways Catholicism flows in and out of their respective disciplines, with the goal of helping their students become not only well-versed academicians, but joyful and articulate defenders of the faith who see God’s hand in whatever field of study they choose to pursue.

Grandkids know PawPaw plays a mean sax

Published on Wednesday, 21 January 2015 10:13 |

Written by Chrisitne Bordelon |

As a child, he was king for a day in the St. Agnes Elementary School carnival parade, but these days, Dave Schof says he’s equally ennobled watching eight of his grandchildren play music in Jesuit and St. Mary’s Dominican high school bands.

St. Philip Neri says: ‘Let the children come unto me’

Published on Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:12 |

Written by Peter Finney Jr. |

The $2.4 million Jensen Family Early Learning Center, now under construction adjacent to St. Philip Neri Church in Metairie, is a blessing for the church parish and school as well as the Jefferson Parish community, said Msgr. Harry Bugler, pastor of St. Philip Neri.

A new campus blossoms at Academy of Our Lady

Published on Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:51 |

Written by Peter Finney Jr. |

The Academy of Our Lady dearly had hoped to move to its stunning, new campus in Marrero over the Christmas holidays, but the present they will receive in February – just after the Mardi Gras break – will make the long wait so worthwhile.