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

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

Veteran actor Al Pacino met the newly elected pontiff, Leo XIV, at the Vatican on Monday. Pacino met the Pope alongside ...

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

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

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

The case against Prevost first emerged during a confrontation with the powerful ultra-Catholic group Sodalitium, with ...

The Vatican wanted a complete makeover of the vatican.va website. The catch was it had to be ready to launch with the ...

As headlines in major U.S. publications on May 8 blared that the first pope from the U.S. had been elected, newspapers in Peru, where he is a citizen, begged to differ.

We need to allow our liturgy to question our biases, enable people to truly experience God’s compassion for all ...

The story is told about a husband who told the doctor at the intensive care unit: “Please save my wife. She is only 30...” ...