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A White Sox cap on the Vatican? Pope Leo XIV is ‘like some other man in Chicago on the South Facet’

By Editorial Board Published June 13, 2025 6 Min Read
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A White Sox cap on the Vatican? Pope Leo XIV is ‘like some other man in Chicago on the South Facet’

Pope Leo XIV is a large Chicago White Sox fan.

It’s an excellent factor too — in any other case the occasion being thrown in his honor on the crew’s dwelling stadium this weekend is likely to be a bit awkward.

Whereas the White Sox play the Rangers in Texas on Saturday afternoon, the Archdiocese of Chicago can be at Charge Subject celebrating the brand new chief of the Catholic Church — who was born and raised on town’s South Facet — with a Mass by Chicago Archbishop Blase J. Cupich and different festivities.

Whereas the person as soon as often called Robert Prevost received’t be there in individual, he’ll seem in what occasion organizers describe as “a video message from Pope Leo XIV to the young people of the world.”

Leo will even be represented in mural kind. The White Sox unveiled a graphic set up that includes his likeness on a concourse wall earlier than a Might 19 recreation towards the Seattle Mariners, lower than two weeks after Leo was chosen as the primary U.S.-born pope. He changed Pope Francis, who died on April 21 at age 88.

The Chicago White Sox have commemorated the fandom of Pope Leo XIV with a graphic set up at Charge Subject.

(Nam Y. Huh / Related Press)

The graphic was put in subsequent to Part 140, the place Leo sat in Row 19, Seat 2 for Sport 1 of the 2005 World Collection between the White Sox and Houston Astros. As exceptional as it’d sound, there may be footage from Fox’s nationwide broadcast of that Oct. 22, that exhibits the person then-known as Father Bob within the stands on the stadium then-known as U.S. Mobile Subject.

Internet hosting a World Collection recreation for the primary time since 1959, the White Sox led by two runs with one out within the prime of the ninth inning. Chicago nearer Bobby Jenks had simply thrown a 95-mph fastball previous Houston’s Adam Everett for an 0-1 rely and was getting ready for his subsequent pitch.

That’s when the digicam panned to a nervous-looking Father Bob, who seems to be sporting a crew jacket over a crew jersey.

Viewers by no means bought to see the long run pope’s response to what occurs subsequent, however he should have been ecstatic as Jenks strikes out Everett in two extra pitches for a 5-3 Chicago win. The White Sox would go on to brush the Astros for his or her first World Collection win since 1917.

“That was his thing. He liked to get out and go to a game once in a while,” Louis Prevost informed the Chicago Tribune of his brother, the long run pope. “Eat a hot dog. Have some pizza. Like any other guy in Chicago on the South Side.”

His favourite crew might have fallen on tougher occasions since then — the White Sox are an American League-worst 23-45 and 20.5 video games behind the first-place Detroit Tigers within the Central Division — however Leo remains to be keen to place his fandom on show for the world to see.

On Wednesday, he wore a White Sox hat alongside together with his conventional papal cassock whereas blessing newly married {couples} in St. Peter’s Sq. outdoors the Vatican.

Kelly and Gary DeStefano, who stay in Haverhill, Mass., and are Boston Purple Sox followers, gave him the hat. Kelly DeStefano informed Boston.com they have been simply making an attempt to get the brand new pope’s consideration.

“I just wanted to make sure everyone at home knew that we did not turn on our team,” she informed Boston.com. “It was all in joke and good fun.”

Six fans wearing red and gold robes and white mitres with White Sox logos in the stands among other baseball fans

Chicago White Sox followers costume up like fellow White Sox fan Pope Leo XIV to observe a recreation towards the Cubs on Might 17 at Wrigley Subject.

(Paul Beaty / Related Press)

It labored, with Boston.com reporting that Leo gave the couple a good-natured ribbing as soon as he came upon the place they’re from.

“You’re going to get in trouble for this,” he informed them, in a video of the assembly.

“Don’t tell anyone in Massachusetts,” Kelly DeStefano replied.

Whereas Leo is likely to be a bit too busy to attend a recreation anytime quickly, White Sox government vice chairman, chief income and advertising and marketing officer Brooks Boyer mentioned final month that the pope is welcome to return to Charge Subject at any time when he desires.

“He has an open invite to throw out a first pitch,” Boyer mentioned. “Heck, maybe we’ll let him get an at-bat.”

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