1097:. Hecker had confessed to committing "overtly sexual acts" with at least three underage boys in the late 1960s and 1970s and revealed his close relationships with four others until the 1980s. In September 2023, a grand jury indicted Hecker on charges of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape, aggravated crimes against nature, and theft. This led to Hecker turning himself in. He was booked, but entered a plea of not guilty. His bail bond was set at $ 800,000, though it was reported in January 2024 that he could not pay the bond, and remained in jail. It was also revealed that while being investigation for a separate child sexual abuse case in December 2020, Hecker confessed in a legal deposition that he still looked at child pornography. In April 2024, a new search warrant was issued that allowed police to seize more documents related to the investigation against Hecker, though Hecker himself was determined, shortly before this warrant was issued, to be mentally unfit to stand trial due to short-term memory loss, but a report found that Hecker's mental health indicated he could eventually recover from this condition, and become once again mentally fit to stand trial.
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of sex abuse. Brander, who
Highfill had known since he was ten, later committed suicide; his brother Michael Brander kept the letters and still pursued justice. The archdiocese refused until 2018 to deem sex abuse allegations against Highfill as credible, but then suspended him indefinitely from ministry; his was the 64th name added to the 2018 list of credibly accused clergy. Highfill, who was also accused of committing sexual abuse against two airmen while serving as an Air Force chaplain in the
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Metairie by archdiocesan priest James
Collery. Collery died in 1987. In 2013, Aymond agreed to pay for the victim's counseling as needed. In 2019, this agreement was amended to cover six more years of counseling. However, the victim sued the archdiocese in April 2020, saying that he took this action after discovering that Collery had had other victims.
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victim received a substantial financial settlement and more than ten months after he pleaded guilty to child molestation. The victim said about the delay "They can't even do something as simple as put somebody on the list who admitted it". In
December 2022, Wheeler was sentenced to five years probation, but died from pancreatic cancer in April 2023.
1626:. In 1962 there were 153 Catholic schools; that year the archdiocese began admitting black students into schools that did not admit them; that year about 200 black children attended the archdiocese's Catholic schools previously not reserved for black children. The desegregation occurred two years after public schools had integrated. Bruce Nolan of
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1072:, attorneys for the archdiocese, pressured by the scandal, reported Hecker, and a few other priests, to the New Orleans police, but only mentioned one case, and not that he had confessed. Hecker was never charged with a crime, although further accusations were made over time. The Catholic church adopted
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President for Communications Greg Bensel had provided public relations advice to the archdiocese. Bensel gave them "...input on how to work with the media" regarding the sex abuse scandal. He advised the archdiocese to "Be direct, open and fully transparent, while
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Meredith Grabill suspended all archdiocesan retirement benefits for priests credibly accused of sexually abusing minors. One of the priests, Paul Calamari, petitioned the court to reinstate his benefits. Speaking in a court session, Calamari told Grabill that
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Highfill was added to the archdiocesan list of credibly accused clergy, nearly two decades after he was first accused of sex abuse. A trove of love letters which Highfill wrote to one of his victims, Scot Brander, in the 1980s also backed allegations that he committed acts
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of the diocese from 1805 to 1812. The diocese became a suffragan of the see of
Baltimore, which had been elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1808, during this period. Archbishop Carroll's successor as apostolic administrator would eventually be the diocese's first resident bishop of the 19th
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Orleans, to serve the indigenous peoples. The Jesuit vicar-general returned to France to recruit priests and also persuaded the Ursulines of Rouen to assume charge of a hospital and school. The royal patent authorizing the Ursulines to found a convent in Louisiana
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The diocese continued paying Hecker and other abusers retirement benefits, until a judge overseeing the diocese's bankruptcy ordered payments to stop. It was not clear in June 2023, when the documents became public, whether Hecker, aged 91, would be charged. In August 2023, Hecker acknowledged his
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Orleans had gone to "shocking lengths" to hide child abuse by a confessed molester who was still alive at the
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confessed to his superiors in 1999 that he had between about 1966 and 1979 sexually molested several teenagers that he had met due to his work as a priest. Hecker's confession said that Archbishop Philip Hannan spoke with him in 1988 about an accusation of sexual abuse. In 1996 Hannan's successor
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of New Orleans. It was originally built in 1718, shortly after the founding of the city. The church building was destroyed by fire several times before the current structure was built between 1789 and 1794 during Spanish rule. During renovations to the cathedral between 1849 and 1851,
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he had a "failing" and a "sin" with a 17-year-old high school boy in 1973. In November, 2020, a news report revealed that the archdiocese had paid one of Calamari's alleged victims US$ 100,000 two years before, deeming the sex abuse allegations against Calamari to be credible.
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policies after the Boston scandal, but the New Orleans archdiocese only acknowledged that Hecker was a predator on releasing the 2018 list of accused clergy. In early 2020, despite his having confessed to child abuse, the Vatican bestowed the honorific title of
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a going concern". The following month a committee representing survivors proposed that church-affiliated organizations and insurers should pay over $ 1bn to settle claims; the archdiocese in response counter-proposed to pay $ 62.5m.
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557:The Archdiocese of New Orleans reflects the
179:United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
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3788:Religious organizations established in 1793
2863:Vargas, Ramon Antonio (November 29, 2023).
2817:A History of the Archdiocese of New Orleans
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1929:VARGAS, RAMON ANTONIO (December 12, 2020).
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2636:Vargas, Ramon Antonio (August 19, 2024).
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1889:. New Orleans Saints. January 24, 2020.
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998:LeBlanc, had been convicted in 1996.
729:Diocese of San Cristobal de la Habana
2788:. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
2617:Riegel, Stephanie (March 26, 2024).
2594:Killion, Aubry (December 21, 2023).
1734:. Donlin Recano. September 13, 2024.
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2737:Nolan, Bruce (November 15, 2010).
2432:Hammer, David (January 19, 2024).
2233:Hammer, David (February 7, 2022).
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2929:Luis Ignatius Peñalver y Cárdenas
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2674:Hammer, David (August 22, 2024).
2342:Hammer, David (August 23, 2023).
2210:Hammer, David (August 19, 2020).
1622:Previously Catholic schools were
1416:, OFM (2015–2023), died in office
1137:Luis Ignatius Peñalver y Cárdenas
874:Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana
719:reverted to Spain as part of the
633:Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana
529:Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis
324:Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis
3808:1793 establishments in New Spain
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3264:St. Charles Catholic High School
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1484:Bishop of Lafayette in Louisiana
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1955:LaRose, Greg (June 30, 2020).
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1388:and Archbishop of New Orleans
1068:In the aftermath of the 2002
984:Response to same-sex marriage
927:New Orleans Hurricane of 1915
776:Third Treaty of San Ildefonso
439:Archidioecesis Novae Aureliae
44:Archidioecesis Novae Aureliae
2655:Mustian, Jim (May 1, 2024).
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3350:New Orleans Catholic League
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3198:Academy of the Sacred Heart
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2855:John and Kathleen DeMajo.
2780:Archdiocese of New Orleans
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1233:Antoine Blanc (1850–1860)
1146:Francisco PorrĂł y Reinado
1118:target for sexual abuse.
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2830:Archdiocesan Statistics.
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2713:"Bishops of Archdiocese"
1862:(Report). August 8, 2022
1769:October 4, 2006, at the
1409:Archbishop of Louisville
1324:Former auxiliary bishops
753:Archdiocese of Baltimore
506:Archdiocese of Baltimore
3448:Diocese of Lake Charles
3307:Holy Rosary High School
3289:St. Scholastica Academy
3234:De La Salle High School
3034:Gustave Augustin Rouxel
2939:Louis-Guillaume DuBourg
2575:. WWL-TV. April 6, 2023
2140:VARGAS, RAMON ANTONIO.
1806:. Kansas City, Missouri
1497:Archbishop of Baltimore
1403:(2007–2013), appointed
1394:(2003–2009), appointed
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1356:(1976–1983), appointed
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1287:(1964–1965), appointed
1161:(1815–1825), appointed
1159:Louis-Guillaume DuBourg
1141:Archbishop of Guatemala
1139:(1795–1801), appointed
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863:Diocese of Natchitoches
792:apostolic administrator
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454:ecclesiastical division
307:; 231 years ago
198:Ecclesiastical province
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3064:Dominic Carmon, S.V.D.
3024:Gregory Michael Aymond
2984:Placide Louis Chapelle
2969:Napoléon-Joseph Perché
2949:Leo-Raymond de Neckere
2459:. Catholic News Agency
1709:. Our Lady of the Isle
1489:William Donald Borders
1441:Bishop of Natchitoches
1382:Gregory Michael Aymond
1261:Placide-Louis Chapelle
1243:Napoléon-Joseph Perché
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1188:Bishops of New Orleans
1167:Archbishop of Besançon
955:Second Vatican Council
915:yellow fever epidemics
885:Diocese of Baton Rouge
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3019:Alfred Clifton Hughes
3014:Francis Bible Schulte
3009:Philip Matthew Hannan
2999:Joseph Francis Rummel
2785:Catholic Encyclopedia
2715:. St. Louis Cathedral
1832:on September 11, 2012
1502:John Clement Favalora
1465:Bishop of Baton Rouge
1371:Bishop of Baton Rouge
1363:Robert William Muench
1358:Bishop of Baton Rouge
1289:Archbishop of Chicago
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1005:In January 2020, the
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641:Diocese of Shreveport
621:Diocese of Alexandria
510:Spanish colonial rule
392:Alfred Clifton Hughes
186:Ecclesiastical region
3274:Saint Mary's Academy
3249:Mount Carmel Academy
3134:St. Augustine Church
3079:Shelton Joseph Fabre
3049:Harold Perry, S.V.D.
3044:Louis Abel Caillouet
2974:Francis Xavier Leray
2810: (archive index)
2751:on November 16, 2010
1587:of the archdiocese.
1581:St. Patrick's Church
1532:Joseph Nunzio Latino
1527:Archbishop of Mobile
1506:Bishop of Alexandria
1437:Cornelius Van de Ven
1401:Shelton Joseph Fabre
1342:Louis Abel Caillouet
1249:Francis Xavier Leray
868:On 11 January 1918,
827:Diocese of St. Louis
673:founding of the city
594:Vietnamese Catholics
545:religious institutes
537:St. Patrick's Church
486:St. John the Baptist
174:Episcopal conference
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3193:Academy of Our Lady
3178:Notre Dame Seminary
2192:. November 5, 2020.
1642:Notre Dame Seminary
1624:racially segregated
1568:St. Louis Cathedral
1514:Archbishop of Miami
1470:Joseph Gregory Vath
1367:Bishop of Covington
1226:St. Louis Cathedral
1178:Bishop of St. Louis
1163:Bishop of Montauban
947:inner-city parishes
813:On 19 August 1825,
788:Bishop of Baltimore
782:on March 10, 1804.
705:Louisiana Territory
305:April 25, 1793
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3244:Jesuit High School
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3054:Stanley Joseph Ott
2989:James Hubert Blenk
2848:The Clarion Herald
2815:Nolan, Charles E.
2744:The Times Picayune
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1762:Nolan, Charles E.
1629:The Times Picayune
1525:in 2001 and later
1508:in 1986 and later
1495:in 1968 and later
1482:in 1967 and later
1480:Bishop of Savannah
1463:in 1959 and later
1457:Robert Emmet Tracy
1354:Stanley Joseph Ott
1305:Francis B. Schulte
1269:, S.M. (1906–1917)
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1150:Bishop of Tarazona
1050:St. Tammany Parish
1007:New Orleans Saints
978:St. Bernard Parish
911:American Civil War
831:Diocese of Durango
737:Louisiana Purchase
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361:Current leadership
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3254:Pope John Paul II
3030:Auxiliary bishops
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2994:John William Shaw
2094:. August 20, 2020
1542:Dominic Mai Luong
1536:Bishop of Jackson
1493:Bishop of Orlando
1476:Gerard Louis Frey
1431:Bishop of Natchez
1378:, SVD (1993–2006)
1350:, SVD (1966–1991)
1317:Gregory M. Aymond
1023:COVID-19 pandemic
970:Hurricane Katrina
939:Hurricane Katrina
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