The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New Orleans, from a famous Voodoo priestess to the self-proclaimed inventor of ...

Verde Valle Foods has struck a deal to acquire A Dozen Cousins, a US-based food brand offering ready-to-eat beans, bone broth ...

Learn more about how American-born Pope Leo XIV’s roots trace back to Louisiana’s Creole community, with census records ...

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

Jari Honora has been tracing bloodlines and family lineage since he was 9 years old, when he began a yearslong journey to ...

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 new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued historians who began digging in the archives and discovered the ...

A genealogist hopes when the pope will stop in New Orleans when he comes to the U.S.: "We have to have a second-line. We have ...

When news broke that Pope Leo XIV had Black and Creole ancestry, the internet practically collapsed. How could this white man ...

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 ...

Catholics in Louisiana are celebrating Pope Leo XIV's Creole roots, revealed through 19th-century census records. The records ...