The nine women of color, each wearing bright dresses and headpieces and some holding second-line umbrellas, had gotten together to practice a trio of traditional Creole songs ahead of the quickly ...

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Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected on Thursday as the new pope, is descended from Creole people of colour from New Orleans.The pope's maternal grandparents, both of whom ...

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His ancestry, traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture, links Leo XIV to the rich and sometimes overlooked Black Catholic experience in America. By Richard Fausset and Robert ...

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(RNS) — Census records for Leo's maternal grandparents hint at the complexity of Creole identity and of Black identity in America. (RNS) — As a Chicago-born missionary to Peru, Robert Francis ...

Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected Thursday as the next pope, is partially descended from Creole people of color, according to Jari C. Honora, a noted genealogist and ...