Pope Leo XIV's background tells the story of complicated racial identities in the U.S., multiculturalism and Black Catholics ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California.

His story is a call to hope and a challenge to the Church in India to see finally and fully those it has failed to embrace ...

St. Landry Parish Archivist Larry Caillier Jr. has researched the Pope’s family lineage, tracing it back to St. Landry Parish in 1792 through the Lemelle and Baquie families, and hopes to ...

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The maintenance worker at the centre of a New Orleans jailbreak has insisted he had no knowledge of the crime being committed despite accusations that he helped aid the escape. Last Friday, 10 men ...

There is a lot of interest in Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in Dolton, Illinois, and the village is contemplating steps on how they can acquire it.

The election of Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, as the first American pope marks a historic moment for the Catholic Church. Yet, to define him solely by his Chicago roots would be to ...

A 39-year-old air traffic controller who was the sole operator on duty for the Newark Liberty International Airport during a 90-second blackout early this month penned an anonymous column warning ...

Reports that the new leader of the Catholic Church has mixed African ancestry offer a fascinating antidote to President Trump’s attacks on diversity in America.

There’s no record the new pope ever identified as Black, and he may never have researched his family’s roots in New Orleans.

My mother was already on her feet, despite the ache of aging legs, gleefully watching repeated news clips about the new pope.