Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

"What does the pope think about us being related? That's my question," one cousin said. "What does he think of us because ...

Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.

This chart was prepared by Henry Louis Gates Jr., American Ancestors and the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami. It reflects the ...

Pope Leo XIV is distantly related to a number of prominent figures, including Hillary Clinton and former Canadian Prime ...

As the first Catholic pope from the United States ... Lee, the founder of Alex Genealogy and Southwest Louisiana Genealogy Researchers, discovered troves of documents in his collection and ...

Pope Leo XIV, the newly elected head of the Catholic Church, has an unexpected connection to pop music legends Madonna and ...

According to leading genealogists, Pope Leo’s family history reveals a deep and complex ... a genealogist based in New Orleans, made similar discoveries while researching the Pope’s maternal ...

While the rest of the world has been losing its mind over the news that the Catholic Church just elected its first American-born pope in Pope Leo XIV, at The Root, we’re more interested in the ...