On Wednesday night, in a quiet corner of Antoine's in the heart of New Orleans' oldest neighborhood, two branches of Pope Leo's family that lost touch two generations before he was born were reunited over Oysters Rockefeller and French 75s. The seeds of the reunion were planted on May 8, when Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was selected by his fellow cardinals as the next pope of the Roman Catholic Church. That morning, New Orleans genealogist Jari Honora saw than an American pope, with the last

Hundreds of members and leaders of the Archdiocese of New Orleans welcomed their new archbishop — Coadjutor Archbishop James Checchio — on Tuesday afternoon at St. Louis Cathedral, the spiritual home of the local Catholic Church in the heart of the French Quarter. They were joined by local civic and business leaders, who formally greeted him in a welcome Mass. To read more, head to nola.com. | NOLA.com