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In an interview with Louisiana Considered, Jari Honora, a family historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, shares ...
Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.
When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he ...
The pope's Creole roots in New Orleans are a source of pride among the city's Black Catholics. But the revelation also ...
While Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago, Illinois, records show that his family lineage has deep roots in Louisiana.
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 ...
His ancestry, traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture, links Leo XIV to the rich and sometimes overlooked ...
In prior interviews, Pope Leo XIV said he was open to a vocation to the priesthood because neighborhood priests were always ...
As a historically Catholic city, New Orleans was always going to celebrate the new pope. Zoom in: But once news broke that ...
(OSV News) – A New Orleans genealogist has found that the first U.S.-born pope has Black and Creole roots – and the discovery ...
in 2024. (Photo courtesy of the Midwest Augustinian Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel via AP) Jari Honora, family ...
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 ...