Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

"What does the pope think about us being related? That's my question," one cousin said. "What does he think of us because ...

Pope Leo’s lineage is international. His ancestors were born in France, Italy, Spain, the US, Cuba, Canada, Haiti, and ...

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

Pope Leo XIV, the newly elected head of the Catholic Church, has an unexpected connection to pop music legends Madonna and ...

Through the genealogy server on Discord, they helped reveal the recent discovery that Pope Leo’s paternal grandfather, Salvatore Giovanni Riggitano, led a life in the U.S. under a different ...

The clerk’s office discovered a Declaration of Intention form signed by Pope Leo XIV’s paternal grandfather, the first step in becoming a U.S. citizen.

It's no secret that when the Vatican announced Pope Leo XIV as the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, everyone wanted to learn so much more about him. Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Mariyana ...