Pope Leo XIV
News on Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, who became the first pope from the United States.
Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope’s past in New York Times Magazine piece.
Carlo Acutis was 15 when he died in northern Italy in 2006, after a short bout with leukemia. The pope announced Friday he’ll be canonized in September.
At the time Pope Francis picked Bishop Gregg Caggianelli, then-Cardinal Robert Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — was running the Vatican office that selects and vets prospective bishops. Cardinal Blase Cupich also is part of that office.
Pope Leo XIV met Thursday with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory panel for the first time amid questions about his handling of abuse and demands from abuse survivors that he enact a true zero-tolerance policy.
Tickets for the June 14th event were originally going for $5 a piece and can be bought in bundles of up to 10. The ballpark is set to open at 12:30 p.m., followed by a 2:30 p.m. prayer service and 4 p.m. Mass.
The “once-in-a-lifetime celebration” will include music, film, in-person testimonials and prayer, the Archdiocese of Chicago said. A Catholic Mass will be celebrated after the program.
State Rep. Martin McLaughlin wants a statue of the new pope at the Illinois statehouse, paid for in part with a commemorative license plate.
Language and how it’s used shapes not only the way we feel but also how we think, said Viorica Marian, professor of psycholinguistics at Northwestern University and author of the new book “The Power of Language.”
Un mural del Papa León XIV se encuentra en la Sección 140, donde se sentó durante el Juego 1 de la Serie Mundial de 2005. “Creo que ahora el asiento más famoso pertenece al papa”, dijo un oficial del equipo.
The current owners of the home, at 212 E. 141st Place, had planned to auction off the home June 18.
“He’s the one who gave me permission” to stay at a Hyde Park monastery in 2000, former priest James M. Ray told the Chicago Sun-Times of Robert Prevost, the newly installed pope who was then head of the Midwest province of his Augustinian order.
A mural of Pope Leo XIV sits atop Section 140, where he sat during Game 1 of the 2005 World Series. “I think now the most famous seat belongs to the pope,” a team official said.
The navy jersey had his name “Pope Leo” on the back. His jersey number? XIV, of course.
“It’s just remarkable to see someone I know as the pope,” said the Rev. Joe Roccasalva, an Augustinian priest who grew up in Beverly on the South Side.
“It’s very special, for our country and especially for our city,” a parishioner at the Shrine of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini says on the day that Pope Leo XIV is installed as leader of the Catholic Church.
Chicagoans in Rome this weekend who knew the former Robert Prevost during his religious studies on the South Side and work in Peru say he will lead the Catholic Church “with a deep sensitivity for people who are the most suffering, the people who are most on the fringes, the poorest of the poor.”
On June 14, Rate Field will host citywide Mass honoring Pope Leo XIV, the Archdiocese of Chicago announced. On Monday, a graphic installation will be unveiled at the ballpark at the location where the future pope cheered in Game 1 of the 2005 World Series.
Readers are surprised to see a selection from the United States, proud of the Chicago connection and full of mixed feelings about perceived similarities to Pope Francis.
Some Catholics in Chicago still hope the new pope will signal greater acceptance for the LGBTQ+ community — with time.