According to Gates Jr., Pope Leo is also related to Boucher de Grandpre, who fought against the British during the ...

Pope Leo shared his American pride while walking through Vatican City wearing a Chicago White Sox baseball cap.

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

Harvard University Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.

Much has been reported about Pope Leo XIV's earliest days of playing priest at the family's home in Dolton, a suburb south of ...

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic ...

The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds, and it's got a very big budget problem. It primarily finances the ...

After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

Chicago will honor its hometown pope, Leo XIV, with a public celebration on Saturday at Rate Field, home of the White Sox.

One of the greatest challenges facing Pope Leo XIV is financial. He has inherited the Holy See’s chronic, 50 million to 60 ...

By Jed Nelson There are moments in history that are so important, so joyful or tragic that we remember exactly where we were ...