As it happened, the pope has several generations of Cuban ancestors.

In total, five generations in the pope’s family tree on his mother’s side were connected to Cuba, starting with Diego de Arana Isla, a Spanish captain who settled in Havana as an accountant ...

Pope Francis' historic trip to Cuba is sure to make political waves. Cuban President Raúl Castro created even more shockwaves when he visited Pope Francis in May and praised the Argentine for his ...

He took his flats boat to Abaco with him and got his first job by walking out on a marina dock and casting his fly rod. “This ...

The newly appointed Pope Leo XIV has some surprising distant Hollywood family members, including Justin Bieber and Madonna.

Diego settled in Cuba around 1663, as accountant for the royal treasury, and died there in 1684. The family remained in Cuba. Four generations of his mother’s line were born in Havana.

As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.

Cuba and the Holy See established diplomatic relations on June 7, 1935. ... Bringing the greeting of Pope Leo XIV to the Church in Cuba, the archbishop called on Mary, ...

Pope Leo XIV is related to some of the most influential people we have ever known, according to The New York Times Magazine.

Just as Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II worked to defeat the USSR, Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV can confront Putin’s Russia. President Trump’s Truth Social message after his phone ...