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See Historical Records Documenting the Pope’s Creole Roots in New Orleans

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See Historical Records Documenting the Pope’s Creole Roots in New Orleans

The Vatican conclave surprised the world this week by selecting the first American pope, a native of Chicago. Soon after, a respected genealogist surprised the world by revealing that the new pope’s heritage connected him to far more strands of the American experience than previously known. Robert Francis Prevost, 69, who took the name Pope … Read more

Pope’s Childhood in a Changing Chicago Tells a Story of Catholic America

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Pope’s Childhood in a Changing Chicago Tells a Story of Catholic America

Before he was Pope Leo XIV, or even Father Bob, he was the youngest of the three Prevost boys in the pews at St. Mary of the Assumption Parish on the far edge of Chicago’s southern border. The parish was bustling when the future pope and his family were parishioners there in the 1950s and … Read more