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

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

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

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

Fight! ” The other introduced himself to the world with his first public word as pope: “ Peace.” The contrast between ...

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

A popular Chicago restaurant chain is celebrating the election of Pope Leo XIV with a sandwich named in the pontiff’s honor.

As a historically Catholic city, New Orleans was always going to celebrate the new pope. Zoom in: But once news broke that ...

American nun Sister Rose Pacatte shares her hopes for women in the Roman Catholic Church after the election of Pope Leo XIV ...

To the shock of many, the new Pope is not only the first Pope from the United States, but the Pope has Haitian and Creole ancestry as well. Those facts are just some of what we learned as we try to ...

Genealogists have discovered that Pope Leo XIV’s maternal grandparents were of Haitian descent, making him the first Haitian Pope in history, adding a rich cultural layer to the papacy.

The next time someone asks sarcastically if the pope is Catholic, tell them not so fast. He apparently has Jewish cousins.