At services on Sunday, some Catholics took particular pride in the election of the first American pontiff, who has familial ...

The pontiff held his first meeting with the news media at the Vatican and called on reporters to choose “the path of ...

Black and Creole Catholics in the U.S. say that a pope who holds these multiple identities is just what the Catholic Church ...

Black America is taking pride in a truth shaking up the Vatican and resonating through the streets of New Orleans: Pope Leo ...

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear about the new pope’s Creole heritage and family ties to New Orleans. We also learn ...

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

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

The next time someone asks sarcastically if the pope is Catholic, tell them not so fast. He apparently has Jewish cousins.

They went into last week’s conclave vastly outnumbered and smarting after being sidelined by Pope Francis for 12 years. And ...

Following in the footsteps of his predecessors, Leo, the first American pope, is expected to deliver remarks to members of ...

(OSV News) – A New Orleans genealogist has found that the first U.S.-born pope has Black and Creole roots – and the discovery ...