Pope Leo's hometown in Illinois, just outside Chicago, bought his childhood home in the village of Dolton. It sold for ...

From an Authentic Memoir Furnished by His Order "is a papal biography based on a manuscript provided by Pope Leo XIII himself ...

People living in British America and later the nascent United States recorded their family histories in needlework samplers, ...

Millions of people around the world were stunned when Pope Leo XIV was elected earlier this year, but one Vatican correspondent wasn't.

As much of world celebrated the 80th anniversary of V-E Day on May 8, white smoke emanated from the Sistine Chapel, marking ...

But beyond the celeb connections, Gates’ research uncovered something far more powerful: Pope Leo XIV is of mixed Black and ...

When Henry Louis Gates Jr. set out to trace the family tree of America's first pope, he had no idea he was about to uncover ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr., who hosts 'Finding Your Roots' on PBS, confirmed Pope Leo XIV is related to Madonna, Angelina Jolie, ...

Pope Leo XIV got a special visit from Finding Your Roots writer, host and executive producer Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., to ...

Immediately after Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was selected as the head of the Catholic Church, his childhood home went from just another hollow “space” to a hallowed “place." ...

Shortly after Pope Leo XIV’s election on May 8, genealogists got to work researching his family tree, quickly establishing that some of his ancestors on his mother’s side were Black.