Pedro Arrupe is a candidate for sainthood, but an abuse victim’s lawsuit turned up evidence that he didn’t prevent child ...

If disputed claims are disqualified, it could raise payouts for some survivors but derail the $235M deal and push the church ...

With the discovery that Pope Leo XIV has roots in Black Creole New Orleans, the time seems right to read about the racial and ...

Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini founded missionary institutions in New Orleans and elsewhere. This week marks 175 years since the birth of a Roman Catholic saint who once lived and worked in New Orleans ...

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 ...

A federal jury in New Orleans has ordered a Catholic religious order to pay nearly $2.4 million in damages to a man who reported being sexually abused by one of its members in the late 1960s.

A proposed $180M clergy sex abuse settlement in the Archdiocese of New Orleans faces resistance from survivors who say it falls short and lacks guarantees.

The Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans is planning to default on paying a nearly $1m interest payment on more than $41m in bonds it sold in 2017, leading lawyers for the people who ...

Honora, a graduate of an all-boys Black Catholic high school in New Orleans, found records of the pope’s ancestors baptized in St. Louis Cathedral over 200 years ago. The earliest baptismal ...