The new pope's French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the Big Easy.

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CHICAGO -- Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New ...

VENICE, La. – Three people were struck by lightning in Louisiana on Friday, while parts of New Orleans were flooded. Patrick ...

This is like a reward from God,” a local parishioner said, as researchers unearthed more details about the lives of Leo XIV’s ...

Census records for Leo's maternal grandparents hint at the complexity of Creole identity and of Black identity in America.

While Chicago celebrates the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, New Orleans may have reason to throw a second line of its own ...

NEW ORLEANS — Friday, New Orleanians raised their arms and opened their hearts to prayer, celebrating Pope Leo XIV. At one of the most historical places in the French Quarter, the Archbishop held a ...

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 Orleans priest said.

That the new pontiff’s ancestry can be partially traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture in New Orleans has ...

The pope’s maternal grandparents, both of whom are described as Black or mulatto in various historical records, lived in the ...