Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, has shocked the world not with doctrine, but with DNA. A genealogical study by The ...

Soon after Pope Leo XIV became the first American pope on May 8, reports came in that he has African-American ancestry, that ...

Pacino met the Pope alongside Andrea Iervolino, the Italian producer behind his film 'Maserati: The Brothers.' ...

Last week, on June 11, The NY Times published an article tracing the ancestry of Pope Leo XIV - born Robert Francis Prevost.

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

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

This chart was prepared by Henry Louis Gates Jr., American Ancestors and the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami. It reflects the ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

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

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Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager, was meant to be made a saint in April, but the ceremony was postponed because of Pope ...