I’m praying for this new pope from the United States who has roots in the 7th Ward. That was a mind-blowing moment for me,’ ...

Many Catholics around the world were stunned when Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, an American, was elected pope. When his ...

After Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.

However, Martinez’s parents — the pope’s great-grandparents — were living in Louisiana ... Williams, a history professor at the University of Dayton, said she hopes that Leo’s ...

The pope’s family history of “gens de couleur libre,” or free people of color, can be traced back to Opelousas, a ...

I share an ancestral connection with Pope Leo XIV. What does that story say about race, religion, and ancestry in America?

But the pattern is a useful framework to consider the recent history of the papacy and to imagine its immediate future. It's too soon to know for sure, but early indications are that Pope Leo XIV ...

Pope Leo XIV's record handling sex abuse cases while he was an Augustinian superior and bishop in Peru has come under renewed ...

The Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV grew up has taken steps to acquire his humble childhood home before the property can be sold off to the highest bidder at a planned auction. Pope Leo, who was ...