Harold Perry, right, was New Orleans' first Black Catholic bishop. Perry is pictured posing outside the U.S. Capitol with the Rev. Bernard Braskamp. Photo provided by The Times-Picayune archive ...

Attorneys for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans report progress towards settling the Chapter 11 case. ... the sale of a church-owned community center in the French Quarter.

Kodi Roberts, Assistant Professor of History at Louisiana State University, says St. Augustine is one of the first three Catholic churches built in New Orleans. "The church is put up in 1841," he ...

NEW ORLEANS — Police on Tuesday cleared out two New Orleans Catholic churches occupied by former parishioners opposed to the archdiocese’s decision to close them, breaking down a door at one ...

New Orleans’ footprint was small when it was founded in 1718. About half the size of the current French Quarter. So the Catholic Church created a cemetery outside the city limits- across the ...

Since then, his name has become synonymous with the crisis that continues to loom over the Catholic Church today. In his new book, City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at 300, Berry ...

Storied Church May Be Victim of Katrina. St. Augustine, Founded in 1841, Is Called Vital Link to Culture of New Orleans. March 19, 2006.

Leaders of one of New Orleans’s other major institutions, the N.F.L.’s New Orleans Saints, were concerned. Gayle Benson, the team’s owner, is a devout Catholic, major church benefactor and ...