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

His ancestry, traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture, links Leo XIV to the rich and sometimes overlooked Black Catholic experience in America. By Richard Fausset and Robert ...

has Creole of color roots from New Orleans on his mother's side!” Honora wrote on social media alongside images of the records. “What a great connection for our local population!” PEOPLE ...

Pope Leo XIV, who is the first American pope in history, has lineage among “free people of color” in the U.S. dating back to ...

When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he ...

The new Pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, who began digging in the archives and discovered the Pope had deep roots in the city. All ...

Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected Thursday as the next pope, is partially descended from Creole people of color, according to Jari C. Honora, a noted genealogist and ...

Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is descended from Creole people of color from New Orleans. Jari Honora, a historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, a museum in the French Quarter ...

“We are enthusiastic that the research into Pope Leo XIV’s ancestry is shedding light on the complex history of the Louisiana Creole people and the meaning of the term ‘Creole’ itself ...

The revelation that Leo XIV has roots among New Orleans Creoles has stirred curiosity and joy about the first pope from the United States. By Campbell Robertson Follow live updates on Pope Leo XIV.

Zydeco icon Jeffery Broussard drops Bayou Moonlight May 23 — an electrifying fusion of Creole roots and New Orleans brass.

The election of Leo XIV gives the Creole community center stage to tell our complicated history to America and the world for ...