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

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.

Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.

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

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

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

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

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church ...

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 ...

That the new pontiff’s ancestry can be partially traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture in New Orleans has ...

Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago, but his family’s New Orleans lineage dates back to the 1880s.