The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New ...

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 ...

Frank Perez’s “Rainbow Fleur de Lis” collects 85 of his essays, published over the past dozen years in “Ambush Magazine” and ...

I’m praying for this new pope from the United States who has roots in the 7th Ward. That was a mind-blowing moment for me,’ ...

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 ...