I share an ancestral connection with Pope Leo XIV. What does that story say about race, religion, and ancestry in America?

Pope Leo XIV's family tree reflects America's complex racial history, according to records obtained by ABC News.

Online genealogists found that Pope Leo’s paternal grandparents in Chicago were accused of having an “illicit affair” in the ...

When [Pope Leo] came to the balcony, I looked up, and I was like, ‘That dude looks like he could be my brother,” a New ...

Honora said he has not yet traced the family tree beyond the pontiff’s grandparents, but he plans to continue the research. “In a city like New Orleans, where so many of us are Roman Catholic ...

His ancestry, traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture, links Leo XIV to the rich and sometimes overlooked ...

demonstrating that the first American pope's family tree reflects the complex racial history of this country. Both of Leo XIV's maternal grandparents, Joseph Martinez and Louise Baquié ...