Pope Leo received an official copy of his family tree, which includes his ties to "free people of color" in New Orleans.

A new book suggests Chicago-born Richard Prevost may have been reluctant at first to take on the weighty responsibility of ...

Pope Leo XIV's maternal grandparents were black or mixed and of Creole descent, moving from New Orleans to Chicago at the turn of the 20th century, reports said Friday.

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

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The first authoritative account of the conclave that elected history’s first pontiff from the United States — written by an American journalist who knew him before he became pope. Despite ...

When Henry Louis Gates Jr. set out to trace the family tree of America's first pope, he had no idea he was about to uncover ...

A noted historian dug into Pope Leo XIV‘s family tree, discovering it includes a who’s who of A-list celebrities, political figures and even a famous novelist.

New research shows that the new Pope also shares ancestry with political leaders like Hillary Clinton and Justin Trudeau, as well as American writer Jack Kerouac During his first address, Pope Leo ...

Pope Leo XIV got a special visit from Finding Your Roots writer, host and executive producer Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr ., to ...

The newly appointed Pope Leo XIV has several star studded branches on his family tree.