Pope Leo XIV received a copy of his family tree from Henry Louis Gates Jr., marking his first public acknowledgment of his ...

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 ...

New genealogical research traces the Pope’s ancestry back to the 1500s, revealing what Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. calls ‘one of the most diverse family trees’ he’s ever come ...

Pope Leo XIV was raised in Chicago by his parents, alongside two brothers, Louis and John. Here's everything to know about Pope Leo XIV's family, including his parents and siblings.

Leo, the first American pope, also called for reviving multilateral diplomacy and promoting dialogue between religions in the search for peace, in his first meeting with the Vatican diplomatic corps.

Pope Leo XIV, unveiled to the world May 8, is a Chicagoan with Creole and Caribbean heritage rooted in New Orleans.

All four of Pope Leo XIV's maternal great-grandparents were “free people of colour” in Louisiana based on 19th-century census records, Honora found. As part of the melting pot of French ...

The pope’s family tree “is the perfect representation of the Americas,” said Del Pino. “What fascinates us and we are delighted with is the diversity that the pope’s genealogy has shown.

From their Chicago upbringing to what they've said about his new role, here's everything to know about Pope Leo XIV's family, including his parents and two brothers.

As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.

A former New Orleans mayor, Marc Morial, called the pope’s family’s history, “an American story of how people escape American racism and American bigotry.” ...

Here’s a look at what we discovered about some of Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV’s family members in the Tribune archives.