The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New Orleans, from a famous Voodoo priestess to the self-proclaimed inventor of ...

Mary Bennett still drives 15 miles to St. Henry’s School, where she works lunch, nurses kids and hasn’t missed a day since the 1970s. Mary Bennett, 90, has been at St. Henry's school in Perham ...

Sunderland City Council’s planning department recently approved a ‘certificate of lawfulness’ for the change of use of St Mary’s Church in South Hylton. The Grade II-listed church ...

Phil Shank cherishes his unique memorabilia stemming from a chance encounter with McGraw more than 20 years ago. For Father Victor Eschbach, it’s a reminder of his special bond with the late pitcher.

But both wound up attending St. Augustine Catholic Seminary boarding school in Michigan, studying at Villanova University in Philadelphia ... the old St. Mary of the Assumption church.

Baquie and Eugenie Grambois — married on Sept. 19, 1864, in New Orleans' St. Mary's Church on Chartres Street, according to the New Orleans Archdiocese's sacramental records. According to ...

Donation Options Search Search Search St. Mary of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church in Riverdale is Pope Leo XIV’s old childhood church. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share The parish ...

“I just wanted to come see his old haunts. He’s very real, having come from Chicago and ministered at ground zero,” said Veld, gesturing to the now-closed St. Mary of the Assumption church.

On Thursday, church ... school near Philadelphia after the 1977 alumnus Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church.

CHICAGO — The old parish church ... and the diminishing Catholic presence in America in general,” said Father Michael Pfleger, a priest at St. Sabina Catholic Church on Chicago’s South ...

VATICAN CITY – Francis’s 69-year-old successor is the first U.S.-born pope in the 2,000-year history of the Roman Catholic Church, which has grown to 1.4 billion strong. There was cheer in St ...