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

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

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

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 ...

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

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!

Among the powerful figures in the crowd? King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, Queen Mathilde and King Philippe of Belgium, JD and Usha Vance, and more.

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 ...

As headlines in major U.S. publications on May 8 blared that the first pope from the U.S. had been elected, newspapers in Peru, where he is a citizen, begged to differ.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attended the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome on Saturday, which also ...