In family lore, the story told about Yolanda Leyva’s Indigenous great-grandmother Canuta depicted a tale of young romance: Sometime during the 1850s, the Rarámuri girl had been taken in as an ...

A large-scale genome study shows that Indigenous peoples in the Americas split off several times, resulting in loss of ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday congratulated Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost — a Chicago native — on being elected the new pope.

Francis was the first Latin American pope and the first from the order of the Jesuits ... and allowing them to incorporate aspects of their Native cultures into practicing their faith. Among the ...

Latin America cannot be a marginal issue for the ... Unlike John Paul for his native Poland, or Pope Benedict XVI on the foundations of Europe, it was not clear what Pope Francis envisioned ...

Mark E. Potts is the senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times. A native of Enid, Okla., Potts graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a master’s degree in broadcast journalism.

Prevost was brought to the Vatican in 2023 by Pope Francis as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations.