Around 400 students, joined by faculty and staff, packed the gymnasium over at De Smet high school in Creve Coeur to ...

Prelates who voted in the conclave played down the new pope’s American roots. In his first Mass as pontiff, Leo pledged to ...

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Pope Leo XIV made history as the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church — and now, there’s a Louisiana connection ...

New Orleans' 7th Ward neighborhood has long been recognized as a cultural stronghold for people of African, French, Spanish ...

Census data from 1900 shows Pope Leo XIV's grandparents lived on North Prieur Street where the Claiborne Overpass is now.

A month before graduating as valedictorian of Chalmette High School, the senior walked his mother, Kathlyn Morales, through the school’s halls for the first time. The moment was a quiet milestone in ...

Gayle Benson's later husband, Tom Benson, has a school named after him in Kenner, Louisiana. Martin Behrman Charter School is located on the Westbank, and school officials say that the institution has ...