I share an ancestral connection with Pope Leo XIV. What does that story say about race, religion, and ancestry in America?

After Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.

The Catholic Church has always been central to Creole identity. The Prevosts aren’t the only ones who passed into white ...

Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.

The election of Leo XIV gives the Creole community center stage to tell our complicated history to America and the world for ...

“But I couldn’t figure out, What are you?” The revelation that Pope Leo is descended from Creole people of color from New Orleans, including some with potential ties to the ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S. pope, descends from Creole and free people of color in Louisiana, highlighting complex issues to ...

“Our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, has Creole of color roots from New Orleans on his mother's side!” Honora wrote on social media alongside images of the records. “What a great connection for ...

Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is descended from Creole people of color from New Orleans. Jari Honora, a historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, a museum in the French Quarter ...

Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected Thursday as the next pope, is partially descended from Creole people of color, according to Jari C. Honora, a noted genealogist and ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the ...

Specifically, historical records indicate that Leo’s maternal ancestors were Creoles of color. The 1900 Federal Census lists Leo’s maternal grandfather, Joseph Martinez, as being born in ...