After the 1804 Haitian Revolution – the uprising against French colonizers that led to the creation of Haiti – the nation became the first in the world to permanently ban slavery. For this reason, ...

Robert Prevost was one of a group of Augustine seminary students who came to Michigan's capitol to talk about education ...

The last Mass at St. Mary of the Assumption took place in the summer of 2011. It has sat vacant ever since. But preservationists say they hope its connection to Pope Leo XIV as his childhood church ...

With Pope Leo XIV making history as the first pope from the United States, his connections to Michiana continue to be ...

The sellers, including a 90-year-old second cousin of Pope Leo XIV, had the house on the market for weeks before the news of his elevation to the papacy arrived last week.

Father Cedric Wilson was a senior in seminary high school in Michigan when Pope Leo XIV was a freshman there. Their ...

In an interview with Louisiana Considered, Jari Honora, a family historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, shares ...

Not long after the white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney in Vatican City and news broke that Robert Prevost ...

The genealogical findings underline the significance of Pope Leo XIV being not only the first pope from the United States, but also being the first with documented ancestral ties to Louisiana’s ...

Catholics in Pittsburgh joined together in a Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Patrick Cathedral to rejoice in the election of their new leader, Pope Leo XIV.

One Villanova professor attributed Leo’s election to what he called the “Trump effect,” while a conservative Catholic ...

In his first days as pope, Leo XIV has struck many as an unassuming man of quiet warmth and deeply rooted identity. A visit ...