Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration ceremony took place in Vatican City earlier today. Many were in attendance, and as tradition goes — when a person is in the presence of a pope, they dress in black ...

The results were announced with white smoke in St ... traced Prevost’s ancestry to the Black community of New Orleans. His maternal ancestors lived in the Crescent City before migrating to Chicago in ...

The first American pope, Pope Leo XIV's ancestry reveals that he may be the first Black pope, with roots tying back to Haiti and New Orleans. When white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel and ...

The results were announced with white ... Black community of New Orleans. His maternal ancestors lived in the Crescent City before migrating to Chicago in the early 20th century, Honora said. Leo ...

Maria Laura Antonelli via Vatican Pool/Getty; Shutterstock Some of the royal women who attended Pope Leo ... black — just as Princess Sophie did. The royal women who hold "the privilege of the ...

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 brother of newly elected U.S.-born Pope Leo XIV ... “identified in records as Black or mulatto,” Honora told Forbes, but the family “passed … into a white racial identity” when ...