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

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago as Robert Francis Prevost, is Black. He is a descendant of Creoles in New Orleans, including ...

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Early coverage of Pope Leo XIV has explored the first American pontiff's Chicago upbringing , as well as the many years he ...

Learn more about how American-born Pope Leo XIV’s roots trace back to Louisiana’s Creole community, with census records ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a US-born and Peruvian dual citizen, was elected as the first American Pope and is expected to be a ...

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