Pope Leo XIV has been receiving a lot of gifts since he became the first American-born leader of the Catholic Church. He has previously been gifted a Chicago Bears Jersey by JD Vance, a present that ...

The pontiff was accompanied by astronomers and students participating in the traditional summer school organized by the ...

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 ...

New genealogical research traces the Pope’s ancestry back to the 1500s, revealing what Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. calls ‘one of the most diverse family trees’ he’s ever come ...

Pope Leo XIV's ancestry is largely Creole, with deep roots in New Orleans, but he also possesses French, Spanish, and Italian heritage.

While the findings were presented with humor online, Gates’ research continues to highlight the unexpected ways that ancestry can connect figures across faith, politics and entertainment.