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CBS News on MSN · 1h

Pope Leo XVI's New Orleans Creole lineage has city buzzing with excitement

While Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago, Illinois, records show that his family lineage has deep roots in Louisiana.

CNN on MSN · 18h

Pope Leo XIV’s unexpected New Orleans Creole background excites city’s large Catholic community

When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he felt an instant kinship.

Chicago Sun-Times · 2h

Pope Leo XIV has Creole roots in New Orleans, 'a blessing' for the diaspora, advocate says

The pope's maternal grandparents are described as Black or a person of mixed white and Black ancestry in historical documents dug up by New Orleans-based genealogist Jari Honora.

Black, Creole, 7th Ward Louisianans celebrate the pope's New Orleans lineage: 'So dope'

New Orleans' 7th Ward neighborhood has long been recognized as a cultural stronghold for people of African, French, Spanish ...

9hon MSN

Pope Leo XIV’s Grandparents lived in 7th Ward, records show

The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists ...

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