Jari Honora has been tracing bloodlines and family lineage since he was 9 years old, when he began a yearslong journey to ...

In an interview with Louisiana Considered, Jari Honora, a family historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, shares ...

While Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago, Illinois, records show that his family lineage has deep roots in Louisiana.

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

As a historically Catholic city, New Orleans was always going to celebrate the new pope. Zoom in: But once news broke that ...

The pope's Creole roots in New Orleans are a source of pride among the city's Black Catholics. But the revelation also ...

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

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear about the new pope’s Creole heritage and family ties to New Orleans. We also learn ...

When they move to Chicago between 1910 and 1912, they ‘passed’ into the white world,” Jari Honora, a historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, told CNN of the new pope’s mother’s ...

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

He soon discovered that his family had roots in the South. The family historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection came to his conclusion after digging up the pope’s grandparents’ marriage ...