Deepa Bharath
Reporter at Associated Press
I cover #religion for @AP. [email protected]. Former @SoCalNewsGroup, former @timesocofficial
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2 days ago |
virginislandsdailynews.com | Jack Brook |Deepa Bharath
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 the Big Easy. All four of Pope Leo XIV’s maternal great-grandparents were “free people of color” in Louisiana based on 19th-century census records, Honora found.
Ascendencia criolla de papa León XIV pone de relieve compleja historia del racismo e Iglesia en EEUU
4 days ago |
apnews.com | Jack Brook |Deepa Bharath
NUEVA ORLEANS (AP) — El apellido Prevost del nuevo papa, que suena francés, intrigó a Jari Honora, genealogista de Nueva Orleans, quien comenzó a investigar en los archivos y descubrió que el papa tenía raíces profundas en “The Big Easy” —el apodo de la ciudad de Nueva Orleans por su atmósfera relajada. Los cuatro bisabuelos maternos del papa León XIV eran “personas no blancas libres” en Luisiana, según los registros del censo del siglo XIX, encontró Honora.
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4 days ago |
washtimesherald.com | Jack Brook |Deepa Bharath
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 the Big Easy. All four of Pope Leo XIV’s maternal great-grandparents were “free people of color” in Louisiana based on 19th-century census records, Honora found.
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4 days ago |
cnycentral.com | Jack Brook |Deepa Bharath
Cardinal Robert Prevost celebrates Mass at St. Jude Parish in New Lenox, Ill., in 2024. (Photo courtesy of the Midwest Augustinian Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel via AP)
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4 days ago |
cruxnow.com | Jack Brook |Deepa Bharath |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen
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 the Big Easy. All four of Pope Leo XIV’s maternal great-grandparents were “free people of color” in Louisiana based on 19th-century census records, Honora found.
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