Former St. Francis Xavier School music teacher Mark Richards, 63, was fired after more than two decades at the school ...

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

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't disclose he was living with his late husband. Mark Richards taught at St ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The death of Pope Francis Monday morning has sent waves of grief and reflection throughout the Catholic world, including at one of the oldest cathedrals in the United States ...

In Malaysia, St. Francis Xavier met a Japanese who interested him in that island nation and, from 1549-52 was involved in spreading the Gospel there. The year 1552 found him back in Goa.

Mark Richards taught at St. Francis Xavier in New Orleans for years. He says he is angry, especially because his husband died two years ago, and teaching is his life.

The Catholic Church in Singapore traces its roots to the first missionaries who, together with St. Francis Xavier, arrived in Malaysia in the 16th century. Singapore lies at the tip of Malaysia ...

President Norman C. Francis of Xavier University in New Orleans shakes hands with Pope John Paul II after appearing before the United Nations committee against apartheid in a special session to ...

A Louisiana Catholic school teacher has claimed he was dismissed from his role after his husband’s obituary revealed he was ...

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.