Pope Leo XIV will head to the lakeside town of Castel Gandolfo for his summer vacation. After 12 years of papal absence, ...

And so, when Pope Leo was elected to lead the Catholic Church and traces of his rich heritage began to emerge, including an ancestor who had been born in Havana, a Cuban genealogist in Miami rushed to ...

Pope Leo will revive a centuries-old tradition on Sunday by taking a holiday at Castel Gandolfo, where residents of the lakeside town hope for a tourism boost after the late Pope Francis shunned ...

From Holy See to Hollywood. A noted historian dug into Pope Leo XIV‘s family tree, discovering it includes a who’s who of ...

Officials in Dolton, Ill., called the purchase a rare opportunity. But some residents questioned whether the village, ...

New genealogical research traces the Pope’s ancestry back to the 1500s, revealing what Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates Jr ...

When local news outlets began reporting Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, had connections to New ...

Pope Leo XIV and Madonna have a common ancestor in their genealogy, making them related. Madonna reacts to the news on social media.

Pope Leo XIV, who made history as the first American pope when he was elected in May 2025, is connected to several famous ...

“Finding Your Roots” host Henry Louis Gates Jr. said the pontiff, who was elected to the position in May, is related to ...

On May 8, moments after the world learned that an American cardinal named Robert Francis Prevost was becoming Pope Leo XIV, my inbox was flooded with emails.