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The elevation of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost to pope earlier this month has been a point of pride for Chicagoland ...
14, 1955, in Chicago, where he was raised alongside ... said that he and his brothers did not discuss their Creole roots ...
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 ...
Pope Leo XIV's family tree reflects America's complex racial history, according to records obtained by ABC News.
As a Chicago-born missionary to Peru, Robert Francis Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — was arguably the least American of the American Cardinals. But despite his close ties to Peru, where he led an ...
The pope's Creole roots in New Orleans are a source of pride among the city's Black Catholics. But the revelation also ...
The pope's maternal grandparents are described as Black or a person of mixed white and Black ancestry in historical documents ...
Since Robert Prevost is a Chicago native, baseball fans were eager to learn which baseball team the new pontiff supports.