As part of the melting pot of French, Spanish, African and Native American cultures in Louisiana, the pope’s maternal ancestors would be considered Creole. “It was special for me because I share that ...

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

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

Here’s what to know. In its earliest usage, Creole referred to people born in the New World, now known as the Americas, as opposed to the Old World — Africa, Asia or Europe, the Creole ...

According to a genealogist, Pope Leo XIV has African-Creole roots, inspiring many on social media to claim the church leader as Black. As reported by Black Catholic Messenger, Pope Leo XIV ...

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

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

A new discovery about Pope Leo XIV is striking a chord in New Orleans ...

He is the first North American pope and, according to a prominent genealogist, a pope with African-Creole ancestry. The understated candidate triumphed on the second day of voting in a count kept ...