After Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.

The pope’s family history of “gens de couleur libre,” or free people of color, can be traced back to Opelousas, a ...

Pope Leo XIV's family tree reflects America's complex racial history, according to records obtained by ABC News.

However, Martinez’s parents — the pope’s great-grandparents — were living in Louisiana ... Williams, a history professor at the University of Dayton, said she hopes that Leo’s ...

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

INVESTIGATION. PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL. WELL, A MESSAGE OF HOPE FROM THE NEW AMERICAN PONTIFF NOW IN CHARGE OF LEADING CATHOLICS AROUND THE WORLD. AND IN TRUE AMERICAN FASHION, WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT ...

Pope Leo XIV's Creole Heritage Highlights Complex History of Racism and the Church ... grandparents were “free people of color” in Louisiana based on 19th-century census records, Honora ...

However, Martinez's parents — the pope's great-grandparents — were living in Louisiana since at least the 1850s, he said. 'Just as Black history is American history, (Leo's) story also reminds ...