For pilgrims who can’t travel to Rome, the bishops are expected to designate important local shrines and pilgrimage sites as ...

Hecker at the time had hired the teen to help set up masses at St. Theresa the Little Flower church in New Orleans to satisfy a pastoral service requirement at his school next door, St. John ...

The disgraced priest attacked the pupil, an aspiring wrestler, after offering to teach him some fighting moves in a weight room at St Theresa the Little Flower church bell tower in the Louisiana ...

WDSU Investigates has uncovered new court records linked to convicted rapist Lawrence Hecker. Warning: the details in the records are graphic.According to the records, one victim said he met ...

NEW ORLEANS — The star witness in the rape case against a self-acknowledged serial child molester and retired Roman Catholic priest was ready to testify when the clergyman suddenly pleaded ...

St. Matthew the Apostle parent Kelly Danton considered starting a Girl Scouts troop in River Ridge for her daughter who was ...

Its members have gone from the back of the church to guiding the ship in one lifetime. Earlier installments in Rafael Alvarez’s “A City to Come” series include Anger and Acceptance at the Shrine of ...

The distinctive dong of an ancient bell accompanied the opening of the Holy Door at Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major on Jan.

Just in time for Christmas, St. Catherine of Genoa church in East Flatbush is open again following a fire in August.

Valencia Camp, the National Shrine’s Director of Special Events, says about 30 volunteers served inside the church, while ...