The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New Orleans, from a famous Voodoo priestess to the self-proclaimed inventor of ...

NEW ORLEANS — While Chicago ... They married in 1864 at St. Mary’s Church on Chartres Street. Eugenie was baptized at the historic St. Louis Cathedral in 1840. Census records from the 1870s ...

Archdiocese of New Orleans Archive Director Katherine Beeman shared that she’s uncovered that Pope Leo XIV’s great-grandmother was baptized in St. Louis Cathedral in 1840. Archive records show ...

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A special noontime Mass at St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter ... expressed excitement over the new pope’s background. “My family, we’re Creole, and it’s ...

Prieur St. in 1900, New Orleans was the queen city of the South ... lifelong New Orleanian whose mother was baptized in St. Louis Cathedral, thought about their church or faith.

When his maternal great-grandmother was just a baby, she was baptized in 1840 at the city's iconic St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square, the New Orleans Archdiocese said. A couple of decades ...

And Catholics across the St. Louis area celebrated the new faith leader during Mass at the Cathedral Basilica ... believes the new pope's universal background will bring a fresh viewpoint to ...

The pope's great grandmother was baptized at St. Louis Cathedral. The pope's mother, Mildred Martinez, was born in Chicago , but she was the first child of her parents not born in New Orleans.

The Design Issue will explore everything from Jackson Square to Audubon Park and Zoo, and St. Louis Cathedral to the New Orleans Museum of Art’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden. And what exploration ...