This chart was prepared by Henry Louis Gates Jr., American Ancestors and the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami. It reflects the ...

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

According to Gates Jr., Pope Leo is also related to Boucher de Grandpre, who fought against the British during the ...

The case against Prevost first emerged during a confrontation with the powerful ultra-Catholic group Sodalitium, with ...

Were Princess Charlene, Queen Letizia, Queen Mathilde and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa allowed to wear white at Pope Leo XIV's inauguration mass? All about the royal rule!

Spain’s King Felipe and Queen Letizia attended Pope Francis’s inaugural mass—though, then they were known as Crown Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia. Twelve years later, they’re once ...

Pope Leo XIV will canonize seven blesseds on Oct. 19, including two Venezuelans: Dr. José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros and ...

The Vatican wanted a complete makeover of the vatican.va website. The catch was it had to be ready to launch with the ...

Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati are pictured in a combination photo. Both are scheduled to be ...