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

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 ...

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

When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he ...

Thanks to Jari Honora – a 2009 graduate of St. Augustine High School and a family historian in the Williams Research Center ...

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 [Pope Leo] came to the balcony, I looked up, and I was like, ‘That dude looks like he could be my brother,” a New ...

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

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

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago, has been confirmed to have African American ancestry through Creole ...