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 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 ...

Last week came news that lit up my family group text: The new Pope, Leo XIV, the cleric formerly ... Still, while we paint ourselves in stark shades of Black and white, underneath the simple ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV said his inaugural Mass at the Sistine ... New Orleans operated under a racial system that distinguished among white people, Black people and mixed-race Creole people like the Martinezes.

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 ...

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 ...