Pope Leo XIV has met with members of Italy’s intelligence services and warned them not to use confidential information for ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary born in Chicago who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first ...

Only a handful of royal women have "il privilegio del bianco" Stephanie Petit is a Royals Editor, Writer and Reporter at PEOPLE. Pool/Getty Queen Camilla made a statement in a black dress and mantilla ...

Kentucky basketball is the best college basketball program of all time, and this is why, year in and year out, the expectations for each team are very high. Last season, in year one of Mark Pope as ...

Pope Leo received an official copy of his family tree, which includes his ties to "free people of color" in New Orleans. Pope Leo XIV received a copy of his family tree from Henry Louis Gates Jr., ...

Black Catholics have long struggled to find their place within the Catholic Church. The church’s own past transgressions with racism — excluding Blacks from leadership roles, establishing segregated ...

Two generations before his birth, Pope Leo XIV's New Orleans family splintered along racial lines. On one side, those who were fair-skinned passed for White. The other side continued on as Black. Most ...

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

NEW ORLEANS (RNS and NPR) — Despite being born in Chicago and living most of his adult life in Peru, the first American pope has been claimed by Black Catholics in the Big Easy, who are welcoming him ...

Gibson said the pope’s Black ancestry feels like a reminder that he, too, belongs, in a church where just 4% of Catholics in the U.S. are Black. “It provides us a happy challenge to expand how we tell ...