The Knights of Peter Claver, the largest historically African-American Catholic lay organization in the U.S., is marking the anniversary of its founding with a Founder's Day Mass to be livestreamed to ...

St. Peter Claver (1580-1654) was a Spanish Jesuit who spent more than 40 years of his life ministering to African slaves trafficked through the Colombian port of Cartagena. He entered the Society of ...

The Knights of Peter Claver is a family-based Catholic organization born from the Black Catholic patrimony and open to all Catholic men and women. The Knights of Peter Claver, the United States’ only ...

The church and building sat vacant for several years when it was placed on the market until 1997, when the Missionary Franciscans of the Eucharist took interest. St. Peter Claver Catholic Church ...

Part of the Community Foundation’s mission is to “connect people who care with causes that matter.” In 2013, two anonymous donors created The Saint Peter Claver Scholarship Fund to honor this saint ...

Sister Rose Bernadette Fitzsimons, a Franciscan nun, said goodbye this weekend during a farewell Mass to the parishioners of St. Peter Claver Roman Catholic Church. With her departure comes the end of ...

The Roots of Music will host their annual holiday concert but this year will host a special tribute to the late Veronica Downs Dorsey.

St. Peter Claver school is closing. The Latin School for Boys in Over-the-Rhine will transfer its students to St. Joseph School on Ezzard Charles Drive next year. St. Peter's last day was Friday. "It ...

On Sunday morning, for the third weekend in a row, the congregation of St. Peter Claver Catholic Church in Treme packed neat rows of spotless green plastic chairs instead of their usual wooden pews.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Archdiocese of New Orleans announced Wednesday that St. Peter Claver School will close at the end of the 2018-2019 school year. The N. Prieur Street school, which has 147 ...

The Knights of Peter Claver marked the 100th Anniversary of their founding on Nov. 7. The Catholic fraternal group, the largest historically African-American Catholic lay organization in the U.S., ...