Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is now known to be of African ancestry, part of a growing picture Americans are ...

Genealogists have discovered that Pope Leo XIV's maternal grandparents were of Haitian descent, making him the first Haitian ...

She received a dollhouse from a beloved church member that was washed away by Katrina. The one she replaced it with helped ...

“CBS Mornings” went straight to Pope Leo’s family to confirm Honora’s discovery. In a May 9 interview, the new pontiff’s ...

The pontiff held his first meeting with the news media at the Vatican and called on reporters to choose “the path of ...

Black and Creole Catholics in the U.S. say that a pope who holds these multiple identities is just what the Catholic Church ...

(OSV News) – A New Orleans genealogist has found that the first U.S.-born pope has Black and Creole roots – and the discovery ...

The new Pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, who began digging in the archives and discovered ...

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church of his new country, Peru. In fact, he became a Peruvian citizen,” Canadian ...

The pope's Creole roots in New Orleans are a source of pride among the city's Black Catholics. But the revelation also ...

While Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago, Illinois, records show that his family lineage has deep roots in Louisiana.