The Pope’s factual anthropological roots are not just symbolic. According to genealogist Jari Honora, his maternal lineage ...

The recent election of Pope Leo XIV, né Robert Francis Prevost, marks a significant moment in history, not only because he is ...

Pope Leo XIV, grandson of a Dominican tobacco worker and heir to a black, Catholic family from New Orleans, perhaps also Haitian, embodies that mixture that irritates purists and gives hope to those ...

On the train he made a statement that he was in Beattyville, the home of “Tallow Dick” Combs, the mulatto whose name has been mentioned in connection with the Goebel murder. This morning he ...

A prominent Catholic newspaper is among those suggesting Pope Leo XIV may be the first Black pontiff in the Catholic Church’s ...

All Negro, mulatto and Indian slaves within this dominion. . . shall be held to be real estate. If any slave resists his master. . . correcting such slave, and shall happen to be killed in such ...

Research has led to reports that the new pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, has Black family roots that trace back to New Orleans.

who were not Christians in their Native Country... shall be slaves. A Negro, mulatto and Indian slaves ... shall be held to be real estate." • Court document regarding Anthony Johnson English ...