A judge sentenced a 93-year-old former Catholic priest Wednesday to spend the rest of his life behind bars for raping a ...

The U.S. Catholic Church has a painful history of racism. One step toward healing could be canonization of the six African ...

A retired New Orleans priest who walked back a public admission of sexual abuse will spend his remaining years behind bars, ...

The Archdiocese of New Orleans, which remains locked ... $2.3 million for the nation’s second-oldest Roman Catholic diocese and come as church officials and abuse survivors work towards a ...

NEW ORLEANS — WWL Louisiana Chief Investigative Reporter David Hammer has been following the Catholic church sex abuse scandal since 2018. He has also teamed up with former New Orleans Advocate ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Former New Orleans Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker, 93, was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday (Dec. 18) after pleading guilty earlier this month to raping a teenaged boy ...

After the survivor told his parents and church authorities ... 1960s when he was an eighth grader at a Catholic elementary school outside New Orleans. Hecker groped Hebert and several classmates ...

Packers.com Editor Mike Spofford joins Erin Summers to talk about the Saints Week 16 opponent and what New Orleans can expect from QB Jordan Love and RB Josh Jacobs. New Orleans Saints interim ...