Just because he's on vacation doesn't mean Pope Leo XIV takes a break from his Sunday duties. The pontiff led Mass on Sunday, ...

The tour starts and ends in Lincoln Park, looping through major stops from the pope’s early life from his childhood home to ...

Pope Leo XIV has been presented with a physical copy of his family tree, which features some Black relatives. The news comes ...

Pope Leo XIV’s Creole and African ancestry, traced to Louisiana and West Africa, is prompting celebration and curiosity among ...

But beyond the celeb connections, Gates’ research uncovered something far more powerful: Pope Leo XIV is of mixed Black and ...

When Henry Louis Gates Jr. set out to trace the family tree of America's first pope, he had no idea he was about to uncover ...

A bus tour centered around Pope Leo XIV’s upbringing will soon traverse the Chicago area, and tickets are already on sale.

The home in which Pope Leo XIV spent much of his childhood has been officially acquired by the village in which it is located ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr., who hosts 'Finding Your Roots' on PBS, confirmed Pope Leo XIV is related to Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Justin Bieber, and Hilary Clinton, among others ...

The vestments, created by the House of Hansen in former Cardinal Robert Prevost's hometown, were made of an ecclesiastical ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost made history by becoming the first pope from the United States — a stunning decision that Chicagoans ...