The Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans is planning to default on paying a nearly $1m interest payment on more than $41m in bonds it sold in 2017, leading lawyers for the people who ...

Harold Perry, right, was New Orleans' first Black Catholic bishop. Perry is pictured posing outside the U.S. Capitol with the Rev. Bernard Braskamp. Photo provided by The Times-Picayune archive ...

The New Orleans proposal calls for the church and its affiliates to provide about $130 million in cash already in hand toward a settlement. That figure would grow to at least $150 million—and up ...

Digging into Pope Leo XIV's New Orleans Creole roots 02:15. America's most European city is buzzing over the news that the Catholic Church's new pope is not only from the U.S. but also has Haitian ...

NEW ORLEANS — The French Market District will celebrate the 39th annual Creole Tomato Festival June 7 and June 8. The festival will cover the French Market, Dutch Alley and Latrobe Park. It will ...

Pope Leo XIV’s grandparents on his mother’s side lived in New Orleans before they migrated to Chicago, where his mother, Mildred Martinez Prevost, was born in 1912, said Jari C. Honora, a ...

New Pope Has Creole Roots in New Orleans His ancestry, traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture, links Leo XIV to the rich and sometimes overlooked Black Catholic experience in America.