LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - On Sunday morning, a historic church in Lexington began construction for a new parish. St. Peter Claver Catholic Church held a groundbreaking ceremony with Governor Andy ...
In Treme, hundreds packed inside a church to say goodbye to a man who touched countless lives and meant so much to so many.A funeral Mass was held for beloved and respected priest Father Michael ...
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 ...
St. Peter Claver Church celebrated a Mass at which 18 St. Mary’s students received the Sacrament of Confirmation, thereby being welcomed fully into the Catholic Church on April 29 in St. Inigoes. The ...
The St. Peter Claver Church complex has seen its fair share racial injustices and now the state and beyond will be better aware of those after a memorial marker was placed at the site of the church in ...
COMMENTARY: No other institution has so consistently opposed slavery for so long as has the Church. And it still does. A sculpture honoring the ministry of St. Peter Claver stands in the square named ...
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.
St. Peter Claver, a Jesuit missionary in Colombia worked tirelessly to evangelize and care for Africans who were being sold as slaves. Though he could not put an end to slavery, he baptized and ...
On September 9, the Catholic Church celebrates St. Peter Claver, a Jesuit missionary who spent his life in the service of African slaves brought against their will to South America during the 17th ...