When the Rev. Matthew Baum attended Johnstown’s Juneteenth activities recently, he was on a multi-layered mission. Baum, rector at St. John Gualbert Cathedral and St. Patrick Catholic Church, both in ...

Pope Leo XIV’s Creole and African ancestry, traced to Louisiana and West Africa, is prompting celebration and curiosity among ...

As UNO athletic director for five years, Bob Gibson grew the Mavericks’ program during a time of budget cuts at the ...

While the rainbow war banners of Pride Month have dominated June over the past several years, immigration raids, riots, airstrikes in the Middle East, and a host of significant U.S. Supreme Court ...

The St. Louis Cathedral has been the city’s center of worship for over 280 years, but the current building has stood for almost 175 years.

A member of the Treme Brass Band plays during a concert marking the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina Concert at the historically black St. Augustine Catholic Church in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The pope's Creole roots in New Orleans are a source of pride among the city's Black Catholics. But the revelation also recalls a painful chapter in the city's past. “In New Orleans, everyone ...

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 and Creole ancestors from New Orleans. While Pope Leo XIV ...

Can Pope Leo XIV's boyhood church — St. Mary of the Assumption — be saved ? The church’s owner hopes the papal link can help efforts to save and reuse the parish buildings on the Far South Side.

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.

Henriette Delille, a Creole nun who defied anti-literacy laws to educate slaves, is the first U.S.-born Black person to be considered for sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church.

PARKERSBURG — St. Margaret-Mary Catholic Church in Parkersburg acquired two pieces of art over the past few years. One is the painting “Madonna of the Rosary with St. Dominic and St. Catherine ...