Musicians perform during Mass at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church, May 25, 2025, in New Orleans. (Photo by Rosemary Westwood) ...

Ricard – who serves as campus minister of St. Augustine High School, a historically Black Catholic school in New Orleans named for the North African priest who founded the order whose membership ...

What are the Catholic Church’s rites after the death of a pope and the election of a new one? Pope Francis sits by the coffin of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square during a ...

When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he felt an instant kinship.

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 ...