New Orleans's archdiocese filed for bankruptcy protection in an attempt to limit its financial exposure in connection with the worldwide Catholic church's decades-old clergy molestation scandal.

The Catholic Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux recently got a new bishop. How old is the diocese compared to New Orleans and the other dioceses in Louisiana?

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 ...