Jari Honora has been tracing bloodlines and family lineage since he was 9 years old, when he began a yearslong journey to ...

The Archdiocese of New Orleans has announced a partnership to allow the Herald to continue publication. Starting July 1, a private communications group will take over the Herald’s printing and ...

Thanks to Jari Honora – a 2009 graduate of St. Augustine High School and a family historian in the Williams Research Center ...

The Pope’s factual anthropological roots are not just symbolic. According to genealogist Jari Honora, his maternal lineage ...

Where census takers in Louisiana recorded them as Black, census takers in Illinois recorded them as white. So, too, do other ...

Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.

It seems that Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first American to lead the Catholic Church, has previously condemned President ...

Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and to actively promote the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a US-born and Peruvian dual citizen, was elected as the first American Pope and is expected to be a ...

Pope Leo XIV received world number one tennis player Jannik Sinner at the Vatican on Wednesday but they stopped short of ...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago as Robert Francis Prevost, is Black. He is a descendant of Creoles in New Orleans, including ...

Pope Leo XIV, grandson of a Dominican tobacco worker and heir to a black, Catholic family from New Orleans, perhaps also Haitian, embodies that mixture that irritates purists and gives hope to those ...