“Through one Canadian ancestor, Louis Boucher de Grandpre, who was born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, the pope is related to ...

Pope Leo’s lineage is international. His ancestors were born in France, Italy, Spain, the US, Cuba, Canada, Haiti, and ...

Vevette Hill-Nwagbaraocha attends All Saints Catholic Church, also on the north side. She, too, is hopeful and excited about Pope Leo, regardless of how he identifies. But his lineage, she said, ...

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

The last four popes of the Catholic Church — John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and our new pope, Leo XIV — had hardworking ...

Madonna, who was raised Catholic and has Italian heritage, has referenced her rocky relationship with the Church numerous ...

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

According to Gates Jr., Pope Leo is also related to Boucher de Grandpre, who fought against the British during the ...

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.

The discovery that the first U.S.-born pope has black and Creole roots is a finding that illustrates the nation’s rich, ...

Pope Leo XIV gave the following homily on Sunday, June 1, for the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents, and the Elderly on St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. The Gospel we have just heard ...