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

From Holy See to Hollywood. A noted historian dug into Pope Leo XIV‘s family tree, discovering it includes a who’s who of A-list celebrities, political figures and even a famous novelist.

Rounding out his roster of famous cousins is “On the Road” author Jack Kerouac. Pope Leo XIV, 70, became pontiff May 9 after just two days and four rounds of voting by the College of Cardinals ...

New Orleans-based genealogist Jari C. Honora first broke the news about this interesting branch of Pope Leo’s family tree, when he discovered that the pope’s maternal grandparents were ...

Pope Leo XIV has some very famous distant relatives, including both Madonna and Justin Bieber; The New York Times found that the pope is related to Louis Boucher de Grandpre, who is a distant ...

Assana hopes Pope Leo’s complex racial history makes him more empathetic to the plight of Black Americans. His missionary work in Peru seems to support that — working with the poor, the ...

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, has made history as the first American to be elected as the head of the Catholic Church - but his early life had some famous friends ...