Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S. pope, descends from Creole and free people of color in Louisiana, highlighting complex issues to ...

Political figures around the world have congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, after his election ...

After the 1804 Haitian Revolution – the uprising against French colonizers that led to the creation of Haiti – the nation became the first in the world to permanently ban slavery. For this reason, ...

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

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 ...

When news broke that Pope Leo XIV had Black and Creole ancestry, the internet practically collapsed. How could this white man ...

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 ...

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

For Vatican experts, the election of American Robert Francis Prevost Martinez as the new pope sends clear political and symbolic signals both within and outside the Catholic world ...

Last week was quite special for the estimated 1.2 billion Catholics around the world when white smoke billowed across St.

After his father died, Mark Charles Roudané, a retired Minnesota schoolteacher, began going through his dad’s papers. There were scores of binders, the records of a life as a prosperous, white, ...

Like Trump, Leo has turned his attention to the media. On Monday in Vatican City, he called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the calling for "all of us to safeguard the precious ...