Pope Leo XIV

COMMENTARY Pope Leo XIV has every right to criticize President Trump's Iran war and immigration policies. But that doesn't mean, as so many are asserting, that no one has the right to criticize the Pope.

Pope Leo XIV's genealogy can be traced back to Haiti, where his grandfather, Joseph Norval Martinez. His census records tell a complex story about the history of race in the U.S.

Pope Leo XIV spent two decades ministering in Peru. He became part of Peruvian society and, eventually, a leader within it.

When the white smoke poured out of St. Peter's Basilica last week, 73-year-old Port Charlotte resident Louis Prevost learned that his brother — Robert Prevost — had been elected pope.