Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected Thursday as the new pope, is descended from Creole people of color from New Orleans. The pope’s maternal grandparents, both of whom are ...

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 historian ...

Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected Thursday as the new pope, is descended from Creole people of color from New Orleans. The pope's maternal grandparents, both of whom are ...

Genealogists and family members of Pope Leo XIV have revealed that the newly named pope, the first-ever American pontiff of the Catholic Church, has direct ties to New Orleans' 7th Ward and the city's ...

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