St. Aug leaders continue to work to protect school’s legacy

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St. Augustine High School’s Board of Directors took steps to preserve the school’s proud traditions and legacy by reaching out to the newly elected superior general of the Josephites Order. The board reached out last week to the Rev. William L. Norvel, a Black Josephite priest with New Orleans ties who became the Josephite Society’s first Black superior general Tuesday when elections were held.

On Friday, June 10, Superior General Edward J. Chiffriller, announced that the Josephites had altered their by-laws to remove the Rev. John Raphael as St. Aug’s president just days after the school’s Board of Directors defied the Josephites by insisting the Father Raphael be allowed to retain his post until his o que significa cash advance contract expires next summer.

Raphael’s reassignment to Baltimore was announced four months after a very public dispute between St. Aug supporters and the Archdiocese of New Orleans over the use of corporal punishment at the all-boys school.

The Josephite Priests and Brothers elected Father William L. Norvel, SSJ, as superior general during their quadrennial General Conference June 13-17 at Saint Joseph Seminary in Washington, D.C.

Father Norvel, 76, is the first African American selected as the Josephite superior general. “Having more Black leadership in the church is fulfilling the dreams of many,” Father Norvel said. “My election shows that the Josephites feel that it’s time that we have Black leadership payday loan gold coast and they will support it.”

The new superior general’s term runs for four years. A native of Pascagoula, Mississippi, Father Norvel is currently pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help church in Washington, D.C.

He is the 13th superior general to lead the Josephites in their 140-year history. He described the two-day selection process as an “attitude of togetherness and family. There is a desire to implement the pastoral plan that was formulated in 2009. We have a vision. Society and the church are changing and the Josephites need to move in a new direction, too.”

Father Norvel has been a leader in bringing African- American spirituality into liturgy in cash advance in pigeon forge the United States. “My thrust in ministry has been to bring Black culture and Black spirituality to the Catholic Church,” Father Norvel told The Josephite Harvest shortly after his election.

Angeles. He opened a Josephite house of spiritual formation in Nigeria, where he served for five years from 1999 to 2004. A number of Josephite priests have been ordained as a result of the Nigerian connection.

Father Norvel said it will be a special challenge to take over the leadership of the Josephite Society at this critical stage. Increasing vocations will be a priority, Father Norvel said. As for the relationship with Nigeria, he said, “We have to go back. I intend to revive the cash loans in salem or House of Formation and we need to prepare men to go there.”

Father Norvel had served as consultor general for the Josephites from 1983 to 1987 when Father John Filippelli was superior general. He also has served as president of the Black Catholic Clergy Caucus from 1985 to 1987.

“We at St. Augustine High School take pride in your accomplishment as the first African-American Superior General of the Society,” Board Chairman Troy Henry wrote in a letter to the Rev. William L. Norvel. “As you are no doubt aware, there are serious issues affecting St. Augustine High School and the Josephite Society. We would very much like to have an opportunity to meet with you and the other persons that you deem appropriate to discuss the various issues affecting St. Augustine High School…

“(We) are willing to have a delegation from the Board of Directors travel to Baltimore/Washington, D.C. to meet you at your earliest available opportunity,” Henry continued. “We are confident that we can come to a mutually acceptable resolution of all issues if we can have a reasonable discussion about what is in the best interest of St. Augustine High School…”

St. Aug’s Board of Directors had not received a reply from Father Norvel at press time.

This article originally published in the June 20, 2011 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper.