Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago, but his family’s New Orleans lineage dates back to the 1880s.

ABC News reports that photos of their grandparents were shown to Pope Leo XIV’s brother, John Prevost, and he confirmed it ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, has Creole lineage from New Orleans, according to records shared after his election ...

Prevost is from Chicago and is taking the name Pope Leo XIV. According to historians at the Historic New Orleans Collection, ...

The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists ...

Census data from 1900 shows Pope Leo XIV's grandparents lived on North Prieur Street where the Claiborne Overpass is now.

America's most European city is buzzing over the news that the Catholic Church's new pope is not only from the U.S. but also ...

The pope's maternal grandparents are described as Black or a person of mixed white and Black ancestry in historical documents ...

In prior interviews, Pope Leo XIV said he was open to a vocation to the priesthood because neighborhood priests were always ...

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

His ancestry, traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture, links Leo XIV to the rich and sometimes overlooked ...

New Orleans' 7th Ward neighborhood has long been recognized as a cultural stronghold for people of African, French, Spanish ...