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Peter Finney Jr.

Peter Finney Jr. is executive editor/general manager of the Clarion Herald, newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

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At an interfaith prayer service Jan. 6, 2025, at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, President Joe Biden, with first lady Jill Biden, places a candle in a semicircle atop a table set up in front of the altar in memory of the 14 people killed during New Year's celebrations in the city's famed French Quarter early Jan. 1. (OSV News photo/Peter Finney Jr., Clarion Herald)

Families are 'not alone' in sorrow over deaths, injuries suffered in New Orleans terror attack, Biden says

Peter Finney Jr.|Jan 8, 2025|5 Min Read

People pray inside St. Louis Cathedral Jan. 1, 2025, where during Mass Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond and 600 worshipers struggled to make sense of the death and carnage perpetrated by a man who drove a pickup truck into a dense crowd of early-morning New Year's revelers just five blocks away on Bourbon Street. (OSV News photo/Peter Finney Jr., Clarion Herald)

NOLA archbishop: 'God always gives us hope, even in the midst of tragic situations'

Peter Finney Jr.|Jan 1, 2025|5 Min Read

Sister Suellen Tennyson, 83, a U.S. member of the Marianites of the Holy Cross, is pictured in a 2007 photo. Sister Tennyson, a native of New Orleans, was kidnapped late April 4 or early April 5, 2022, after armed attackers broke into the convent on the parish compound in Yago, Burkina Faso. (CNS photo/Christine Bordelon, Clarion Herald)

World

Sister Suellen freed after five months of captivity in Burkina Faso

Peter Finney Jr.|Aug 31, 2022|4 Min Read

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NCEA speaker addresses impact of social media on adolescents

Peter Finney Jr.|Apr 21, 2022|5 Min Read

Three Marianite Sisters: Suellen Tennyson, Pascaline Tougma and Pauline Dourin, are pictured in an undated photo near the clinic where they serve in Yago, Burkina Faso. Sister Tennyson, 83, an American, was kidnapped late April 4 or early April 5 after armed attackers broke into the convent on the parish compound. (CNS photo/courtesy Marianites of the Holy Cross)

World

U.S. nun, 83, kidnapped in Burkina Faso

Peter Finney Jr.|Apr 6, 2022|4 Min Read

Father Tim Hedrick, pastor of St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Metairie, La., welcomes U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett after her speech to the Catholic school Jan. 24, 2022. Barrett was joined by her mother, Linda, far left, and her 11-year-old daughter, Juliet, who asked the questions provided by students at the school. (CNS photo/Peter Finney Jr., Clarion Herald New Orleans)

Faith

Justice Barrett urges Catholic school students to work hard and dream

Peter Finney Jr.|Jan 25, 2022|4 Min Read

Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron gives the homily at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans Oct. 4, 2021, during the Red Mass of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.(CNS photo/Peter Finney Jr., Clarion Herald)

Faith

Barron: If religion becomes an afterthought, 'our society loses its soul'

Peter Finney Jr.|Oct 6, 2021|5 Min Read

Kenneth St. Charles, president of St. Augustine High School in New Orleans, talks to drum majors in the school's "Marching 100" band in this 2016 file photo. St. Charles officials said they felt overwhelmed by a $1.5 million donation from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's #StartSmall initiative, the largest single gift in the school's 69-year history. (CNS photo/Frank J. Methe, Clarion Herald)

New Orleans Catholic school gets financial boost from Twitter foundation

Peter Finney Jr.|Aug 11, 2020|4 Min Read

Dennis Kalob, economic policy specialist of the Jesuit Social Research Institute of Loyola University New Orleans, speaks during a Nov. 21, 2019, news conference. Kalob said the five states of the Gulf South rank near the bottom of the "JustSouth Index" measuring poverty, racial disparity and immigrant exclusion. The report calls for raising the federal minimum wage and increasing access to health care. (CNS photo/Peter Finney Jr., Clarion Herald)

Five Gulf South states rank at bottom of 'social justice' index

Peter Finney Jr.|Nov 25, 2019|4 Min Read

Los Angeles Rams defensive back Nickell Robey-Coleman breaks up a pass intended or New Orleans Saints wide receiver Tommylee Lewis during the fourth quarter of the NFC Championship game at Mercedes-Benz Superdome Jan. 20

Super Bowl Blues: When Atlanta rhymes with Mylanta

Peter Finney Jr.|Feb 2, 2019|5 Min Read

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News

High court gives OK to Louisiana monks to make, sell simple caskets

Peter Finney Jr.|Oct 23, 2013|4 Min Read

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