Pope Leo XIV has a family tree that spans centuries and apparently includes the Queen of Pop and Canada’s favorite sad boy.

As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.

Pope Leo XIV, who made history as the first American pope when he was elected in May 2025, is connected to several famous ...

Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.

Pope Leo XIV is distantly related to a number of prominent figures, including Hillary Clinton and former Canadian Prime ...

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

Many Catholics around the world were stunned when Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, an American, was elected pope. When his ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover policy issues relevant to preserve a free economic system The election of Pope Leo XIV, a member of the Augustinian ...

An image of Pope Leo XIV with rappers in Chicago is digitally altered and was shared by an X account that posts parody and fake news. Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago native, was elected the new ...

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now is also a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Cook County Clerk's office has some 80,000 boxes of records stored in warehouses. However, records pertaining to Pope Leo XIV's paternal grandfather were right in their office.

US VP Vance invites Pope Leo XIV at Vatican meeting to visit US Leo, elected May 8, is first pope from US As cardinal, Leo was critical of Trump administration VATICAN CITY, May 19 (Reuters ...