The Catholic Church has always been central to Creole identity. The Prevosts aren’t the only ones who passed into white ...

Reports that the new leader of the Catholic Church has mixed African ancestry offer a fascinating antidote to President Trump ...

The revelation that Leo XIV has roots among New Orleans Creoles has stirred curiosity and joy about the first pope from the ...

As part of the melting pot of French, Spanish, African and Native American cultures in Louisiana, the pope’s maternal ancestors would be considered Creole ... in Los Angeles, said the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the ...

This site is free thanks to our community of ... “So many of these large Louisiana families have branches that elected to follow the Great Migration west to Los Angeles or north to Chicago ...