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

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 ...

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.

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, began ...

Pope Leo XIV has Creole ancestry. What does that mean and why does it matter? The election of the Catholic Church's first American pope is historic and so are his roots.

On May 8, moments after the world learned that an American cardinal named Robert Francis Prevost was becoming Pope Leo XIV, my inbox was flooded with emails.

Pope Leo XIV, who is the first American pope in history, has lineage among “free people of color” in the U.S. dating back to at least the 1840s, a genealogist told Forbes.

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. “The family were free ...