The revelation that Leo XIV has roots among New Orleans Creoles has stirred curiosity and joy about the first pope from the ...

When news broke that Pope Leo XIV had Black and Creole ancestry, the internet practically collapsed. How could this white man ...

Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.

The world is still adjusting to the historic election of Pope Leo XIV—the first American Pope and a native of the Chicago ...

The remarkable success of the movie “Sinners” has sparked a renewed interest in how the two communities wrestled with life ...

It seems that Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first American to lead the Catholic Church, has previously condemned President ...

Markle, the wife of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, famously stated that although she has a mother who identifies as a Black woman, she had never been treated like a Black woman. That held until she ...

Pope Leo XIV's family tree reflects America's complex racial history, according to records obtained by ABC News.

A genealogist hopes when the pope will stop in New Orleans when he comes to the U.S.: "We have to have a second-line. We have ...

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

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 ...

Catholics in Louisiana are celebrating Pope Leo XIV's Creole roots, revealed through 19th-century census records. The records ...