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The contrast between President Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark, politically, personally, or in ...
The contrast between President Donald Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark — politically, personally or ...
The genealogical findings underline the significance of Pope Leo XIV being not only the first pope from the United States, but also being the first with documented ancestral ties to Louisiana’s ...
As a Chicago-born missionary to Peru, Robert Francis Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — was arguably the least American of the American Cardinals. But despite his close ties to Peru, where he led an ...
Black and Creole Catholics in the U.S. say that a pope who holds these multiple identities is just what the Catholic Church ...
(OSV News) – A New Orleans genealogist has found that the first U.S.-born pope has Black and Creole roots – and the discovery ...
The pope's Creole roots in New Orleans are a source of pride among the city's Black Catholics. But the revelation also ...
This is like a reward from God,” a local parishioner said, as researchers unearthed more details about the lives of Leo XIV’s ...
The pope's maternal grandparents are described as Black or a person of mixed white and Black ancestry in historical documents ...