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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to hold Mass in the basement of his family’s small brick home, reading from ...