The first parade of the Mardi Gras season took place as scheduled in the French Quarter despite security fears following the ...

“a charism that sees the sanctity of life as supreme and offers the consecrated lives of their members as an oblation to end the greatest evil of our time and to help women embrace their vocation as ...

The parade that gets the Mardi Gras season started will be bigger, start later, and follow a reversed route this year.

The first parade of the Mardi Gras season will roll tonight, less than a week after a man drove his truck into crowds on ...

The procession’s first stop will be the golden Joan of Arc statue on Decatur Street, where "Happy Birthday" will be sung. The parade will then head to St. Louis Cathedral for the annual blessing ...

Joan of Arc was as religious as a person can get without turning into a stained-glass window. When she was just 13 she claimed to have been visited by three saints – Michael, Catherine and Margaret.

The original stone statue of Joan of Arc is on display in City Hall, while a bronze version will remain outside the former ...

Women dressed as angels, hands clasped in prayer, passed through New Orleans to celebrate the first parade of Carnival season ...

It contains one of cinema’s fleshiest kisses, but also a moment of pure spiritual transcendence. And it’s the interdependence of these elements that makes Carl Dreyer’s 1955 classic Ordet – which is ...