CHICAGO -- Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New Orleans, Louisiana, records show. ABC News has obtained several records, ...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is taking on his latest genealogy adventure! On Saturday, July 5, the host and executive producer of the Emmy-nominated PBS show Finding Your Roots traveled to the Vatican to ...
An American pope was big news. News that Robert Francis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV as of May 8, was a (distantly) New Orleans pope? Even bigger, at least among local Catholics and genealogy researchers.
A Boston exhibit is inviting guests to explore Pope Leo XIV’s family tree in depth, spanning 14 generations of history tracing the pontiff’s connections to noblemen, freedom fighters, enslaved men and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New Orleans, Louisiana ...