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Peter Finney Jr., a New Orleans native and former sportswriter for the New York Post and the New York Daily News, has served since 1993 as executive editor and general manager of the Clarion Herald, the official Catholic newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. He was honored in 2013 by the Catholic Media Association of the United States and Canada with the St. Francis de Sales Award for outstanding contributions to Catholic journalism, the highest award bestowed by that organization. He is the coauthor of The Archbishop Wore Combat Boots, a memoir detailing the life of New Orleans Archbishop Philip M. Hannan, and wrote the introduction to The Best of Peter Finney: Legendary New Orleans Sportswriter, a compilation of columns by Peter Finney Sr. during his seven decades as a sportswriter with the New Orleans States-Item and New Orleans Times-Picayune. Peter and his wife, Carolyn, have four children and six grandchildren.