The recent spectacle of Rome bidding goodbye to one pope and welcoming another was undoubtedly moving and historic for ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, as the first American pope marks a historic moment for the Catholic Church. Yet, to define him solely by his Chicago roots would be to ...

Reports that the new leader of the Catholic Church has mixed African ancestry offer a fascinating antidote to President Trump’s attacks on diversity in America.

There’s no record the new pope ever identified as Black, and he may never have researched his family’s roots in New Orleans.

My mother was already on her feet, despite the ache of aging legs, gleefully watching repeated news clips about the new pope.

Being an eighth generation Louisiana Creole who’s been researching and telling the story of my people since the 1990s, discovering that Pope Leo XIV shares a piece of our geographic ...

Pope Leo XIV and I are fourth cousins. I am grateful to Jari Honora of the Historic New Orleans Collection for bringing Pope ...

From the moment I first entered the archdiocesan archives, I was captivated by its rich history and abundance of records.

When local T-shirt shop Dirty Coast heard that Pope Leo XIV had family ties to New Orleans, they did what they do best and ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the ...

Early coverage of Pope Leo XIV has explored the first American pontiff’s Chicago upbringing, as well as the many years he ...

The new leader of the Catholic Church has a distinction that goes beyond being the first pope from the United States. Records ...