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

When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he ...

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

A genealogist hopes when the pope will stop in New Orleans when he comes to the U.S.: "We have to have a second-line. We have ...

In an interview with Louisiana Considered, Jari Honora, a family historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, shares ...

When [Pope Leo] came to the balcony, I looked up, and I was like, ‘That dude looks like he could be my brother,” a New ...

The world is still adjusting to the historic election of Pope Leo XIV—the first American Pope and a native of the Chicago ...

Pope Leo XIV has confirmed his favourite football team is Roma after engaging with a fan. The first US leader of the global ...

In prior interviews, Pope Leo XIV said he was open to a vocation to the priesthood because neighborhood priests were always ...

Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New Orleans, ...

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