Today is the feast of St. Peter Claver to whom I have a special devotion. He spent his life serving African slaves in a city to the north of Latin America. They were left out and neglected to a point ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Southwest Louisiana is getting in the Mardi Gras spirit and letting the good times roll! This ...

Peter Claver died on Sept. 8, 1654. When he was canonized by Leo XIII in January 1888, the Pope declared, “No life, except the life of Christ, has so moved me as that of St. Peter Claver.” ...

Saint Peter Claver is remembered for baptizing more than 300,000 people, many of them slaves. As an ordained priest, Peter Claver primarily provided spiritual guidance to the numerous slaves who ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The historic St. Peter Claver Catholic School is at risk of closing and a social media influencer is stepping in to help. St. Peter Claver Catholic School is the oldest ...

St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood is steeped in history. It's where three St. Peter Claver Catholic School seventh graders made some personal history of their own -- setting sail in the Boundary ...

Father Norman Fischer, a Catholic priest who ministered to hundreds of Lexingtonians from St. Peter Claver Church and as chaplain at Lexington Catholic High School, died on July 14 while traveling ...