The new pope reportedly has ties to Black and Creole communities in Louisiana. On Thursday (May 8), Robert Francis Prevost was named Pope Leo XIV and the new leader of the Catholic Church.

The recent election of Pope Leo XIV ... as white on her birth certificate, her father, Joseph Martinez, was recognized as Haitian. Her mother, Louise Baquié, was described as Black and ...

The first American pope's grandparents identified as Black, records show. Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on ... their race as white. Like so many families ...