Mark Richards had taught music and was band director at a Metairie Catholic school since 2023. He was fired this week after a ...

Mark Richards taught at St. Francis Xavier for years. He says he is angry, especially because his husband died two years ago, ...

Music teacher Mark Richards says he was fired from a Louisiana Catholic school for violating a morality clause in his ...

A longtime Catholic school music teacher beloved by parents is out of a job, and he claims part of the reason is that he didn ...

A gay Catholic school music teacher in Louisiana claimed he was fired after a parent discovered his husband’s obituary and ...

In an email to community members at the archdiocese-run school from which he was dismissed, Mark Richards said that he had ...

Two years before he joined St. Francis Xavier, Richards met John Messinger, a retired banker. The two married in 2014 and were together until Messinger died of a heart attack at the age of 70 in 2023.

Mark Richards had worked at the St. Francis Xavier Catholic School in Metairie for over 20 years before he was dealt the life-changing career blow. “It’s just a stab in the back,” Richards ...

Mark Richards, 63, who is gay, tells PEOPLE he was terminated from his job at St. Francis Xavier Catholic School in Metairie after teaching there for more than two decades.