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

In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Jari Honora has been tracing bloodlines and family lineage since he was 9 years old, when he began a yearslong journey to ...

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

Pope Leo XIV’s maternal grandparents were black or mixed and of Creole descent, moving from New Orleans to Chicago at the ...

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

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