After celebrating his first Mass as pope, Leo XIV is slated to have a full schedule in the coming days. His next engagement ...

Eliasard Moneus' dreams of freedom evaporated Thursday when he admitted stuffing his 3-month-old son, Jacob, into a bucket of ...

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Newly chosen Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass at the Sistine Chapel on Friday, along with the cardinals who elected him. Follow for live news updates.

This is like a reward from God,” a local parishioner said, as researchers unearthed more details about the lives of Leo XIV’s ...

The pope's maternal grandparents are described as Black or a person of mixed white and Black ancestry in historical documents ...

Many Louisiana Creoles were known in the 18th and 19th centuries as “gens de couleur libres,” or free people of color. Many were well educated, French-speaking and Roman Catholic. Over the ...

Census records for Leo's maternal grandparents hint at the complexity of Creole identity and of Black identity in America.

The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the ...