This week’s District News from our correspondents across the Rotherham borough: ...

LAFAYETTE PARISH — The Diocese of Lafayette announced Friday that Father Korey Lavergne, pastor of Saint Edward Church in Richard, was arrested earlier today following an investigation by the Acadia ...

A Catholic priest went viral for his sermon about “The Fate of Ophelia,” a song Taylor Swift wrote for her fiancé, Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce. Rev. Eric Mah pointed to the ballad as a lesson ...

Call it a holy remix. A Catholic priest has gone viral after preaching a sermon inspired by “The Fate of Ophelia,” a Taylor Swift song written about her fiancé, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis ...

Formators and others who work closely with Catholic priests regret the growing number of young men who are choosing to leave the priesthood — but hard numbers on exactly how many have done so up to ...

The man shot and killed by federal agents in Minnesota was also known for his ‘gentleness.’ A picture of Alex Pretti is left at a makeshift memorial on Jan. 25 in the area where Pretti was shot dead a ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The first publicly recognized Black priest in the United States, Augustus Tolton, may not be a household name. Yet I believe his story – from being born enslaved to becoming a ...

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The Roman Catholic Church might be considered a bit stodgy and old-fashioned. But not all priests are the same. They understand that the church’s future depends on younger generations, and they do ...

A combination photo shows the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in an undated file photo and Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory giving his homily at the annual Mass celebrating the legacy of Rev. King on Jan.

For decades, a short, wiry priest was the go-to guy in Utah’s Catholic diocese. Like an Energizer Bunny, Monsignor J. Terrence Fitzgerald was a “consummate problem solver,” observers said, managing ...

Ravers danced and swayed to the loud bass at a popular night club in the heart of the city of Beirut. It was another sold-out Saturday in the party capital of the Middle East. What was different was ...