Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

Lauren Poiroux, sociology senior, A’niya Robinson, political science senior, and Patricia Boyett, director of the Women’s Resource Center,  read along at the Interfaith Prayer Vigil on Tuesday March 8, 2016. The prayer vigil was a part of the Feminist Festival put on by the Women’s Resource Center. Photo credit: Taylor Galmiche

Faith and feminism meet at Feminist Festival prayer vigil

Dari Zeltser March 15, 2016
Loyola's feminist interfaith prayer vigil on March 8, 2016 featured several representations of divine femininity.

Lenten Series continues with a conversation on the “Spirituality of Encounter”

Seán Brennan March 15, 2016
Alumni explored the value of a spirtuality of encounter, inspired by Pope Francis.
The Rev. Mariano Veliz shares his experience with God’s mercy in his life at St. Anthony of Padua Church. He said God gave him the strength to his forgive his parents’ decision making. Photo credit: Jamal Melancon

Divine Mercy conference considers social pariahs

Jamal Melancon and Caleb Beck March 4, 2016

The father of the Rev. Mariano Veliz of St. Anthony of Padua Church moved to the city of Mexicali around the age of seven. There he roamed the streets unsupervised and was recruited by drug traffickers...

Pew Research Center puts Louisiana in the top five most religious states

Jamal Melancon March 4, 2016

The Pew Research Center’s latest Religious Landscape Study has found that 71 percent of adults in Louisiana are “highly religious”. The state follows Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee...

Father Zipple explains mercy as celebration

Caleb Beck March 4, 2016

Continuing their series of lenten discussions, Loyola invited back former faculty member and noted Jesuit, the Rev. Jeremy Zipple, S.J. to talk about his travels as a missionary and his appreciation of...

St. Anthony of Padua to host a two-day Divine Mercy conference event

Jamal Melancon February 26, 2016

A divine mercy conference featuring opportunities to do prayer, confession and hear testimonials about the role of God’s mercy in New Orleans will take place at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church...

Sydney Smith, Leslie Rowland, June Smith, Yari Diaz, Scott Hanthorn, the Rev. Shingaku Kato and Tim O’Hara (left to right) gather for a Nichiren Shoshu general meeting on Sunday, Feb. 21. Kato presided over his first general meeting in New Orleans and plans to make a minimum of two visits per year to the area. Photo credit: Jamal Melancon

Nichiren Shoshu priest encourages the spread of faith through family

Jamal Melancon February 26, 2016

During the Rev. Shingaku Kato’s first visit to New Orleans, he performed an initiation ceremony for a new member and spoke of the importance of propagating faith to family.Kato traveled from Chicago,...

Fr. Fred Kammer S.J. reads from Pope Franciss Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel) in the Ignatius Chapel. The first of an on campus lenten series focusing on Pope Francis spirituality was titled The Joy of the Gospel. Photo credit: Caleb Beck

Campus lenten series discusses the spirituality of Pope Francis

Caleb Beck February 26, 2016

With two years of progress already behind him, Pope Francis shows no signs of pumping the brakes on the radicalism and mercy that have defined his character in the Papacy. Francis’s beliefs...

Justice Scalia remembered at funeral mass

Jamal Melancon February 26, 2016

On Feb. 20, a funeral service was held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died at a ranch in Texas on...

David Lopez plays guitar during Iglesia de Dios Getsemanis 2016 Primicias celebration. Lopez has been a musician in the ministry department for three years. Photo credit: Victor Hugo

First fruits celebration puts God first

Jamal Melancon February 17, 2016

David Lopez, biological sciences sophomore, sought both God’s presence and better communication skills as part of what he prayed for during his sixth annual celebration of Primacias, or First Fruits,...

Anthony Pontecore, music industries freshman, left, Joshua Byrd, public relations senior, Johannah Williams, political science sophomore, and Jasmine Coleman, business management senior, right, sing with the Genesis Gospel Choir at the Black History Mass in the Ignatius Chapel on Sunday, February 14th.  The mass, which was led by the Rev. Maurice Nutt, director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University in New Orleans, focused on Black history in America and Christianity’s role in it. Photo credit: Zach Brien

Xavier University reverend holds Black History Mass at Loyola

February 17, 2016

Music, laughter and prayer brightened the rows of the dimly lit Ignacio Chapel during this year's Black History Mass. On Sunday, Feb. 14, the University Ministry held its annual Black History Mass,...

First Row: Raymond Price
Second Row (L to R): Camila Casaw, Bentlie Logan (TL), Maya White, Heather
Malveaux, Maria Todd, Devin Stephens
Third Row (L to R): Vanessa Onstad (staff), MacKenzie Hill, Brooke Amendola,
Ryan Stewart, Patrick Klena (TL), Autumn Moore
Fourth Row: Gabe McCulloch
Credit: Peter Stewart

Ignacio Volunteers Return from Jamaica Trip

Seán Brennan February 14, 2016

For most students, the first weeks of January are usually spent in preparation for the upcoming semester. But junior Raymond Price was preparing for something he'd never done before. He was preparing to...

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