The congregation of St. Mary Basilica has launched a $2.5 million project to restore the exterior of the historic church.

St. Mary’s Parish finalized the purchase of an $8.5 million property in Annapolis from the Annapolis Area Christian School.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CNA Staff, May 13, 2025 / 12:12 pm A Catholic mother of 10 and grandmother of 30 was honored by New Orleans’ Archbishop Gregory Aymond during a special vigil Mass on May 12. Jeanne Vath Ory was ...

When Joseph Martinez and Louise Baquié and their two young daughters lived at 1933 N. Prieur St. in 1900, New Orleans was the queen city of the South, with new electric streetcars and state-of ...

A couple of decades later, the pope's maternal great-grandparents — Ferdinand D. Baquie and Eugenie Grambois — married on Sept. 19, 1864, in New Orleans' St. Mary's Church on Chartres Street ...

The interior of the shuttered St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, where Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost, used to attend mass while growing up in Dolton.

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 ...

This week, 60 Minutes reported on St. Mary's Academy, a Catholic school for young Black women in New Orleans, Louisiana.