NEW ORLEANS (RNS) A Catholic high school that was the country's last refuge of corporal punishment has ended a legal struggle over control of the school and agreed that the days of paddling are over. ...

An archbishop has ordered officials at a Black Catholic school in New Orleans to refrain from corporal punishment practices, despite the support of many students and families for the disciplinary ...

NEW ORLEANS-- More than 500 students, parents and other supporters of St. Augustine High School marched Saturday on the offices of Archbishop Gregory Aymond to oppose his call for an end to the school ...

NEW ORLEANS-- One by one, alumni of St. Augustine High School took the microphone Feb. 24, recalling one paddling at the hands of a St. Augustine teacher that turned them around and taught them a ...