The 69-year-old, who became the first American pope upon his election last week, it turns out, has ancestral ties to the Creole population. Creole is a term encompasses the mixed raced descendants ...

Christophe Clement, one of the top thoroughbred trainers in the United States over the last 34 years, has died. He trained longshot Tonalist to victory in the 2014 Belmont Stakes and won a ...

Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected on Thursday as the new pope, is descended from Creole people of colour from New Orleans.The pope's maternal grandparents, both of whom ...

His ancestry, traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture, links Leo XIV to the rich and sometimes overlooked Black Catholic experience in America. By Richard Fausset and Robert ...

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Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected Thursday as the next pope, is partially descended from Creole people of color, according to Jari C. Honora, a noted genealogist and ...

Robert Francis Prevost, 69, who took the name Pope Leo XIV, descended from Creole people of color from New Orleans. The detective work of Jari Honora, the New Orleans genealogist and historian ...

America's most European city is buzzing over the news that the Catholic Church's new pope is not only from the U.S. but also has Haitian and Creole ancestors from New Orleans. While Pope Leo XIV ...

(RNS) — Census records for Leo's maternal grandparents hint at the complexity of Creole identity and of Black identity in America. (RNS) — As a Chicago-born missionary to Peru, Robert Francis ...

Clement is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Guardians. Clement will take a seat for the second game in a row and could be moving into more of a part-time role against right-handed ...

As part of the melting pot of French, Spanish, African and Native American cultures in Louisiana, the pope’s maternal ancestors would be considered Creole. “It was special for me because I ...

First as the first U.S.-born pope — and second as the first pontiff with recent ancestors who were Creole people of color in New Orleans, something the new pope has never acknowledged publicly.