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

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 ...

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

The genealogical findings underline the significance of Pope Leo XIV being not only the first pope from the United States, but also being the first with documented ancestral ties to Louisiana’s ...

"What does the elevation of Cardinal Robert Prevost to Pope Leo XIV mean for New Orleans Catholics?" asks columnist Robert ...

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

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 ...

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

Though family trees show that the author is related to the new pope, there are some relatives he's less proud to have.

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

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