{"id":41029,"date":"2025-05-09T02:32:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T02:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/chicago-reacts-to-hometown-pope-leo-like-the-cubs-winning-the-world-series\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T02:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T02:32:41","slug":"chicago-reacts-to-hometown-pope-leo-like-the-cubs-winning-the-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/chicago-reacts-to-hometown-pope-leo-like-the-cubs-winning-the-world-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago reacts to hometown Pope Leo: \u2018Like the Cubs winning the World Series\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents \u2013 Catholic and non-Catholic \u2013 celebrate a \u2018moment of joy\u2019 as native son Robert Prevost becomes new pontiff<\/p>\n<p>As white smoke billowed from the Vatican in Rome, yellow papal flags whipped in the crisp Lake Michigan breeze in front of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy on Chicago\u2019s North Side.<\/p>\n<p>Screams of \u201cHabemus Papam!\u201d echoed throughout the cafeteria at the Catholic school on Thursday afternoon, when news broke that Chicago\u2019s Robert Prevost had become Pope Leo XIV.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/08\/pope-leo-chicago-home-town\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents \u2013 Catholic and non-Catholic \u2013 celebrate a \u2018moment of joy\u2019 as native son Robert Prevost becomes new pontiff As white smoke billowed from the Vatican in Rome, yellow papal flags whipped in the crisp Lake Michigan breeze in front of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy on Chicago\u2019s North Side. Screams of \u201cHabemus Papam!\u201d &#8230; <a title=\"Chicago reacts to hometown Pope Leo: \u2018Like the Cubs winning the World Series\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/chicago-reacts-to-hometown-pope-leo-like-the-cubs-winning-the-world-series\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Chicago reacts to hometown Pope Leo: \u2018Like the Cubs winning the World Series\u2019\">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-41029","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\/41029","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=41029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}