In the heart of Church Hill, the roots of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church go back to the 1930’s, when the redemptorist fathers started the Church Hill Catholic mission on 27th street.

The boys were given black rosaries and a prayer book, the girls the same, but their rosaries were white. That was back in 1965. My family was Catholic but we did not pray the rosary.

The board behind the redevelopment of Lafayette’s Holy Rosary Institute broke ground Tuesday on a long-awaited effort to restore a historic part of the city’s Black community.. With $4.5 ...

Bober, who joined Holy Rosary in 1973, grew up in the then-all-white Bellefontaine Neighbors area of North St. Louis County. The center of her family’s universe was Our Lady of Good Counsel parish.

Father David Stopyra, who was assigned pastor of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in 1997, retired from the helm of “the little white church” at the end of June after more than 15 years at the parish.

On black asphalt under the shadow of Holy Rosary’s iconic, towering steeple, they’re numbered and marked out in fresh white spray paint — waiting to be occupied.