re: The new pope has deep ties to Louisiana

https://www.wbrz.com/news/pope-leo-xiv-s-family-has-ties-to-louisiana-going-back-more-than-100-years-historian-says/

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The former Cardinal Robert Prevost, elevated to the papacy Thursday, has connections to the New Orleans Creole community, said historian Jari Christopher Honora. Honora posted a marriage certificate that says Prevost's maternal grandparents Joseph Martínez and Louise Baquie married at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart on Annette Street in New Orleans in 1887.

Honora, who has written for the Historic New Orleans Connection, added that at the turn of the 20th century the couple lived on North Prieur Street in the Seventh Ward before it was overtaken by the Claiborne Avenue overpass. The family then moved to Chicago between 1910 and 1912.

"What a great connection for our local population!" Honora said in a Facebook post sharing Census and marriage records.

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According to AvoyollesToday.com, Joseph Martínez' grandfather was an Italian immigrant — Jacques Martino — who married a woman from East Feliciana Parish. When he moved to New Orleans, Martino's name was changed to Martínez.

Rep. Troy Carter celebrated the pontiff's local ties, calling the occasion of an American Pope with Creole ancestry a testament to "the enduring strength and global reach of New Orleans’ diverse faith community."

“The news that the first American Pope has roots here in New Orleans, with ancestral ties to our Creole and Haitian families, is nothing short of extraordinary. It reminds the world that greatness rises from every corner — including communities that history has too often overlooked or underestimated," Carter said.

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We have a very close family friend who is a Priest that knows the Pope very well. I can't wait to see him again and pick his brain and see what he has to say about the guy, if he will divulge anything at all. They tend to be pretty protective and won't say anything negative, but I know this guy doesn't agree with some of the tweets we have seen released.

I'll believe it when he says, "first you make a roux" at communion.

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Surely someone has pointed out that there’s no way his grandmother could’ve been born in 1868. He’s about my age and my grandmother was born in 1896 and I am one of the youngest ones of her grandchildren and I will be 68 in one month.

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Would put the Grandmother in her early 40s when she had Leo's mother.

Very unusual for the time but not impossible

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does he eat gumbo?

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after his decades in Peru, he probably puts soy sauce on his sushi.

So is this pope sidewalk side or neutral ground side?

‘Deep ties’

What does that even mean?