The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the ...

When white smoke curled into the Roman sky and the world learned that the College of Cardinals had elected Robert Francis ...

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago, has been confirmed to have African American ancestry through Creole ...

Pope Leo XIV traveled to several countries as prior general of the Order of St. Augustine between 2001 and 2013 and also as a ...

It is one of the oldest and most traditional communities of Catholicism, with eight centuries of history and Martin Luther ...

Pope Leo XIV has reopened the papal apartment at the Vatican after the death of Pope Francis. The apartment is in the ...

Standing on loggia of St. Peter’s basilica, newly elected Pope Leo XIV smiled, waved and appeared to hold back emotion May 8 ...

Cardinal Prevost's choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice. It also recalls ...

Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and ...

Though family trees show that the author is related to the new pope, there are some relatives he's less proud to havbe.

A U.S.-funded flight carrying 49 white South Africans lands as Trump fast-tracks refugee status for Afrikaners, sparking ...

The Episcopal Church is refusing to help the Trump administration resettle white South African “refugees,” ending a ...