#pope leon

[sambuchito]

pope leon direct gods anger at that wretched empire and you will be allowed in the kingdom of heaven!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jadexwasabi-jb9]

He greeted peru in spanish but didn’t say anything to the americans — love that!

[gunw96k]

i really like twitter sometimes

[melancholyghoul]

Congratulations Pope Leon 🥳

[spicy-cannoli]

WELCOME, POPE LEON XIV

[musicalcompanions]

Fun fact, Leo in Latin means Lion so, technically, the name in English is Pope Lion :)

[josefgalahad]

Habemus Papam! (a little late sorry)

[kay9leo]

New Pope has Black Roots

So apparently according to Wikipedia and this article listed here, Pope Leo XIV maternal grandparents are Louisianan Black Creole grandmother and Black Haitian Grandfather.

White smoke, Black pope? Pope Leo XIV, first American pontiff, has African roots

Previously unknown genealogy on the 69-year-old Chicago native was revealed by genealogists shortly after white smoke rose in St. Peter's Sq

Multiple genealogists, including the Louisiana Creole expert Jari Honora from the Historic New Orleans Collection, traced Prevost’s ancestry to the Black community of New Orleans. His maternal ancestors lived in the Crescent City before migrating to Chicago in the early 20th century. Leo XIV is not known to have publicly commented on his African ancestry, which is part of a mixed heritage that also includes French, Italian, and Spanish roots. According to the U.S. Census, Prevost’s mother, the late Mildred Martinez, was the mixed-race daughter of Black property owners, the Haitian-born Joseph Martinez and New Orleans native Louise Baquié, a Creole.

And his mom's family was originally from New Orleans:

Robert Francis Prevost, now Leo XIV, was named the first American pope of the Catholic Church on Thursday — and his lineage traces back to New Orleans, according to Jari Honora, a local genealogist and historian. When Honora heard the last name "Prevost," he started digging, on the odd chance Leo XIV's paternal line might be French Canadian or Acadian with Louisiana ties. What he found, to his surprise, was that Prevost's mother, Mildred Martinez, was the one with familial cords to the city.

Our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, has Creole of color roots from New Orleans on his mother's side! What a great connection for our local population! They left New Orleans and went to Chicago between 1910 and 1912. His grandparents were married in 1887 at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart on Annette Street. In 1900, his grandparents owned and lived at 1933 North Prieur Street, a site taken by the Claiborne overpass. - Jari Christopher Honora's Post

Honora tracked down a marriage license that showed the Pope's maternal grandparents, Joseph Martinez and Louise Baquié, were wed at Our Lady of Sacred Heart on Annette Street in 1887. Joseph Martinez claimed Haiti as his birthplace, Honora said, "which could very much be true, given the back-and-forth that has always existed between New Orleans and Haiti. Or he could have deeper New Orleans roots. (I'm) still working on that." During the 1900 U.S. census, the couple was listed as residing at 1933 North Prieur Street, a site later demolished due to the construction of the Claiborne Avenue overpass. They were also described as Black, and Joseph Martinez was said to have an occupation as a cigar maker. About 10 years later, the family moved to Chicago, where the pope's mother was born. "Martinez's older brothers and sisters were all born in New Orleans, in the 7th Ward," Honora said. "They moved to Chicago between 1910 and 1912, and like so many Louisiana families, they shifted their racial identity. They moved to a big metropolis and go about what people assume you are."

-Pope Leo XIV has roots in New Orleans' 7th Ward. See his family lineage and history.

From what it looks like, it seems like Pope Leo XIV's mother's family could've been part of the Great Black Migration within the US since they moved from New Orleans to Chicago.

And according to Pope Leo XIV's Wikipedia (that's still continuing to be updated on his information as we speak), he grew up in Dolton, Illinois. Today it is a majority Black neighborhood and in the 1980s it was a majority White Neighborhood and I assuming it was also White majority when he was growing up and his mother was probably White-passing. According to the Wikipedia page, his maternal grandmother was mixed-raced.

(One-Drop rule - Wikipedia)

UPDATE: According to Wikipedia, the pope doesn't have Haitian roots, he has Dominican Roots - his maternal grandfather was born in Santo Domingo, DR. -> El abuelo del nuevo papa nació en la isla, cuando era identificada como Haití, dice genealogista Antonio Guerra