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Rosemary Westwood

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Public Health Reporter at WRKF-FM (Baton Rouge, LA)

Public Health Reporter at WWNO-FM (New Orleans, LA)

Murrow-winning host of Banned. Stories in @wwno @wrkf, @NPR @GuardianUS @oxfordamerican @globeandmail @vanityfair etc. rosemary at wwno dot org. dm for signal

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  • 'We call him our cousin': Black Catholics in New Orleans embrace Pope Leo as their own

    2 weeks ago | anabaptistworld.org | Rosemary Westwood

    Despite being born in Chicago and living most of his adult life in Peru, the first American pope has been claimed by Black Catholics in the Big Easy, who are welcoming him as family and dubbing him “Pope Leo of the 7th Ward.”“We call him our cousin,” said Dorothy Pierce as she left Mass at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church in the Treme neighborhood on a recent May Sunday, just over two weeks after Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected as the 267th pontiff in Rome.

  • ‘We call him our cousin’: Black Catholics in New Orleans embrace Pope Leo as their own

    3 weeks ago | americamagazine.org | Rosemary Westwood

    NEW ORLEANS (RNS and NPR) — Despite being born in Chicago and living most of his adult life in Peru, the first American pope has been claimed by Black Catholics in the Big Easy, who are welcoming him as family and dubbing him “Pope Leo of the 7th Ward.”“We call him our cousin,” said Dorothy Pierce as she left Mass at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church in the Treme neighborhood on a recent May Sunday, just over two weeks after Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected as the 267th pontiff in Rome.

  • Black Catholics in New Orleans embrace Pope Leo as their own

    3 weeks ago | religionnews.com | Rosemary Westwood

    NEW ORLEANS (RNS and NPR) — Despite being born in Chicago and living most of his adult life in Peru, the first American pope has been claimed by Black Catholics in the Big Easy, who are welcoming him as family and dubbing him “Pope Leo of the 7th Ward.”“We call him our cousin,” said Dorothy Pierce as she left Mass at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church in the Treme neighborhood on a recent May Sunday, just over two weeks after Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected as the 267th pontiff in Rome.

  • Why Black Catholics in New Orleans feel a special connection to Pope Leo XIV

    3 weeks ago | npr.org | Rosemary Westwood

  • Why Black Catholics in New Orleans feel a special connection to Pope Leo XIV

    3 weeks ago | kuow.org | Rosemary Westwood

    Why Black Catholics in New Orleans feel a special connection to Pope Leo XIVA genealogist has discovered that Pope Leo XIV has Creole roots in New Orleans, where Black Catholics are now celebrating "Pope Leo of the 7th Ward."

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