SHREVEPORT – The white smoke rose from the Vatican, and Pope Leo XIV has delivered his inaugural Mass in the past two weeks. Robert Prevost became the first American to ascend to the head of the Catholic Church, and Louisiana has a connection as Prevost ...

A Catholic educator from Texas says teaching students about Black Catholic saints and other holy men and women of color “gives not only representation, but new role models for all of our students.” “Being Catholic is an overarching, cross-racial ...