Where census takers in Louisiana recorded them as Black, census takers in Illinois recorded them as white. So, too, do other ...

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

This is an opinion column. They didn’t have a choice. My ancestors and most of their kindred didn’t have the option of choosing to identify as Black. Or to pass. Of course, some did. Some opted out.

It seems that Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first American to lead the Catholic Church, has previously condemned President ...

Pope Leo XIV received world number one tennis player Jannik Sinner at the Vatican on Wednesday but they stopped short of ...

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

A Catholic mother of 10 and grandmother of 30 was honored by New Orleans’ Archbishop Gregory Aymond during a special vigil ...

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 ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is now known to be of African ancestry, part of a growing picture Americans are ...

Genealogists have discovered that Pope Leo XIV’s maternal grandparents were of Haitian descent, making him the first Haitian Pope in history, adding a rich cultural layer to the papacy.

She received a dollhouse from a beloved church member that was washed away by Katrina. The one she replaced it with helped ...