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 ...

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 ...

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

The oldest neighborhood here is The French Quarter (also known as Vieux Carré), which despite its reputation for rowdy ...

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 ...