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

The world is still adjusting to the historic election of Pope Leo XIV—the first American Pope and a native of the Chicago ...

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 ...

(OSV News) – A New Orleans genealogist has found that the first U.S.-born pope has Black and Creole roots – and the discovery ...

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

“CBS Mornings” went straight to Pope Leo’s family to confirm Honora’s discovery. In a May 9 interview, the new pontiff’s ...

Pope Leo and his childhood home in Dolton, Illinois PHOTOS COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA AND Detroit, MI. – A New Orleans genealogist ...

Here's what to know. First American-born Pope has roots in New Orleans, tracing back to the 7th Ward Prevost, who chose Leo ...

When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he ...

The pope's maternal grandparents are described as Black or a person of mixed white and Black ancestry in historical documents ...

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 ...

The Pope’s factual anthropological roots are not just symbolic. According to genealogist Jari Honora, his maternal lineage ...