The pope’s family history of “gens de couleur libre,” or free people of color, can be traced back to Opelousas, a ...

Robert Prevost’s election as pope stunned many Catholics skeptical that an American would ever be elevated to that role.

Marie Clack, who was traveling with him, said, “I almost started crying, full body chills.” Prevost is a former head of the Order of St. Augustine and was the only member of the ancient order ...

Prevost (the new pontiff’s birth name ... and now we have somebody who represents that,” said Lodya Dhego Jean Marie, a priest from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, who now ...

"I think we family because my last name is Prevost and his last name is Prevost," he said. Marie Ange Fleurissant is also proud of the Pope. Hearing the news, she said, "Pè a se on Ayisyen ...

Chicagoans elated by the election of American’s first pope pay $3,000 for glimpse inside Leo XIV’s former life ...

The recent election of Pope Leo XIV, né Robert Francis Prevost, marks a significant moment in history, not only because he is ...

Thursday’s election of Robert Prevost – now Pope Leo XIV – was extra special for Marie Sweeney, a proud graduate of Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, the same city where Pope Leo XIV ...

Pope Leo XIV and I are fourth cousins. I am grateful to Jari Honora of the Historic New Orleans Collection for bringing Pope ...