NEW ORLEANS — 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 ...

Honora and others in the Black and Creole ... is just what the Catholic Church needs to unify the global church and elevate the profile of Black Catholics whose history and contributions have ...

The former Cardinal Robert Prevost’s maternal grandparents — identified as “mulatto” and “Black” in ... as gifts to the church.” Shannen Dee Williams, a history professor at the ...

(AP) — A fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters ... ‘Behavioral control’ Today in History: June 1, priceless recordings destroyed in Universal ...

While the Trump administration tries to downplay matters of race and racism in US history ... [Historic Black University] in the country.” As part of its path forward, the church is trying ...

Five days after the police-involved, Memorial Day murder of George Floyd in 2020, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, ...