Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.

We never imagined that the death of a pope and the election of his successor would generate so much design controversy. First ...

Pope Leo XIV leaves the Augustinian General House in Rome after a visit, Tuesday, May 13, 2025.

Fight!” The other introduced himself to the world with his first public word as pope: “Peace.” The contrast between President ...

After his father died, Mark Charles Roudané, a retired Minnesota schoolteacher, began going through his dad’s papers. There were scores of binders, the records of a life as a prosperous, white, ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S. pope, descends from Creole and free people of color in Louisiana, highlighting complex issues to ...

In an interview with Louisiana Considered, Jari Honora, a family historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, shares ...

The contrast between President Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark, politically, personally, or in ...

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 ...