Pope Leo XIV's family has ties to Louisiana going back more than 100 years, historian says

NEW ORLEANS — The newly elected Pope Leo XIV has ties to Louisiana, a New Orleans historian and genealogist said about the first pope born in the United States of America on Thursday. Born in Chicago, former Cardinal Robert Prevost has connections to the New Orleans Creole community. According to historian Jari Christopher Honora, Prevost's maternal grandparents married at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart on Annette Street in 1887.By 1900, they lived on North Prieur Street in the