ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Millions of people around the world are celebrating the announcement of the new pope leading the Catholic Church. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, has taken the name ...

Carol LeBlanc, right, plays the keyboard as the choir sings during Mass in the parish hall at St. Augustine Catholic Church in New Orleans, Sunday, July 9, 2023.

The history of St. Augustine Catholic Church in Treme is personal for longtime members like Sandra Gordon, 62, whose enslaved great-grandmother, Mary Belle Weadd, received permission to be baptized at ...