{"id":41010,"date":"2025-05-08T21:17:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T21:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/new-pope-is-a-cubs-fan-says-prominent-chicago-priest\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T21:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T21:17:35","slug":"new-pope-is-a-cubs-fan-says-prominent-chicago-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/new-pope-is-a-cubs-fan-says-prominent-chicago-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"New pope is a \u2018Cubs fan,\u2019 says prominent Chicago priest"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to church leaders from the Archdiocese of Chicago, newly elected Pope Leo XIV<\/a>, the first pope to hail from the United States, has a heart for the poor and is also a Cubs fan.<\/p>\n

Leo XIV\u2019s election was announced to the entire world on Thursday, marking a historic moment<\/a> in which a Chicago-born cardinal, Robert Francis Prevost, was chosen as the Catholic Church\u2019s new leader.<\/p>\n

A member of the Augustinians, a religious order within the Catholic Church<\/a>, the 69-year-old pontiff was born in Chicago, studied at Villanova University, was ordained a priest in 1982 and was made a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2023.<\/p>\n

He had been serving as prefect of the Vatican\u2019s Dicastery for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.<\/p>\n

ROBERT PREVOST\u2019S JOURNEY FROM CHICAGO TO BECOMING FIRST AMERICAN POPE AS LEO XIV<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Chicago archdiocese celebrated the news of the pope\u2019s election in a press conference on Thursday in which they shared some insight into what kind of leader Leo might be.<\/p>\n

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Lawrence Sullivan said that “Pope Francis<\/a> was certainly someone who cared for those who are living on the fringes, who could easily be forgotten. And I strongly suspect that Pope Leo the 14th will do the same thing. He will give voice to the voiceless.”<\/p>\n

Sullivan said that Leo\u00a0“brings a wide variety of perspectives,” including “what it means to have been born in Chicago<\/a>, what it means to have been educated here in the United States, what it means to serve in Peru.”<\/p>\n

He said that Leo\u2019s former leadership roles at the Vatican mean that he “has a real hands-on knowledge of what it means to serve the poor and to help those who are in need” and that he is “very familiar with the worldwide church.”<\/p>\n

TRUMP CONGRATULATES POPE LEO XIV, CALLS HIS ELECTION ‘A GREAT HONOR’ FOR THE UNITED STATES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Sullivan went on to note that “the people of God are not confined to national boundaries” and that Leo “is not an American at this point. He’s a child of God, and that’s the way that he’s going to lead, taking all people into consideration.”<\/p>\n

Despite this, Father Gregory Sakowicz, rector of Chicago\u2019s Holy Name Cathedral, said, “You can never deny your roots. So, I’m sure he has a love for Chicago, love for the United States. That’s part of his upbringing.”<\/p>\n

Smiling, Sakowicz said that “one burning question I have is the fact that the Pope, Leo the 14th, or the cardinal, then Robert Prevost, was born in Chicago on the South Side. Is he a Chicago White Sox fan?”<\/p>\n

Sakowicz said he did not know whether Leo was a White Sox fan but that he knows that “he’s a Cubs fan.”<\/p>\n

“I heard he’s a Cubs fan. Well, God bless him, and God bless all the fans,” said Sakowicz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to church leaders from the Archdiocese of Chicago, newly elected Pope Leo XIV, the first pope to hail from the United States, has a heart for the poor and is also a Cubs fan. Leo XIV\u2019s election was announced to the entire world on Thursday, marking a historic moment in which a Chicago-born cardinal, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}