There’s no record the new pope ever identified as Black, and he may never have researched his family’s roots in New Orleans.

It's really special to have the book be picked because it feels like a kind of acceptance of the Vietnamese community,' the ...

Ron Bechet and Keith Duncan will discuss Duncan’s “Battle of the Bands” exhibition for a Curated Conversation event at 2 p.m.

When local T-shirt shop Dirty Coast heard that Pope Leo XIV had family ties to New Orleans, they did what they do best and ...

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

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 ...

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

When [Pope Leo] came to the balcony, I looked up, and I was like, ‘That dude looks like he could be my brother,” a New ...

The pope's maternal grandparents are described as Black or a person of mixed white and Black ancestry in historical documents ...

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

Pope Leo XIV's family tree reflects America's complex racial history, according to records obtained by ABC News.