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

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

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 ...

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

The last five pontiffs have addressed members of the international news media who reported on the conclaves that elected them.

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

Findings regarding Pope Leo XIV's familial roots appear to indicate that the pontiff's great-grandfather was Maltese, the New York Times reports.

The sporting world mourned the death of Francis − a lifelong soccer fan. The new pope is more of a baseball guy.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic religious order ...

Then-Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost attends the funeral of Pope Francis. He was elevated to Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, and news quickly broke that Prevost's family has Creole roots in New Orleans.

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