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From our brothers in the Province of St. Albert the Great: Bishop Joseph Perry of Chicago preached on the life of St. Martin de Porres at the installation of Fr. Paul DePorres Whittington, OP at the newly erected St. Katherine Drexel Church in Chicago on November 3, 2018. Click to read more...

A $500,000 gift from the Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation will fund completion of the chapel in the Fr. Val McInnes, OP, Center for Catholic Life. The chapel, located on Tulane University’s uptown campus, will be named The Chapel of St. Martin de Porres, donated by Gayle and Tom Benson.

The Tricentennial of the City of New Orleans has given local Catholics the opportunity to reflect and give thanks for 300 Years of Catholicism in New Orleans. On Saturday, November 3, the clergy, religious, and laity of the Archdiocese of New Orleans are invited to A Celebration of Faith: Transforming the World, Witnessing to Jesus.

Three of our young priests talk about ministry experience, vocation discernment, thoughts on the current sex abuse scandal in the Church, and much more! Click to listen...