Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

Harvard University Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

According to Gates Jr., Pope Leo is also related to Boucher de Grandpre, who fought against the British during the ...

Many Catholics around the world were stunned when Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, an American, was elected pope. When his ...

If you were hoping to see the pope in a baseball jersey you're out of luck, but he was spotted donning a black and white ...

The discovery that the first U.S.-born pope has black and Creole roots is a finding that illustrates the nation’s rich, ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his Chicago roots when arriving to the Vatican for his weekly general audience on Wednesday.

On the 81st anniversary of the unprecedented D-Day invasion at Normandy, the memory of one Navy veteran lives on after his ...

The noted Chicago White Sox fan will deliver a pre-recorded video message to attendees and viewers. Friends of the pope are ...