Cubs And White Sox Battle Over Pope Leo Xiv's Fandom; Southsiders May Have Upper Hand

Pope Leo XIV is keeping his sports rooting liking adjacent to his vest, but nan 2 teams successful his hometown look to person already made up their minds.

Robert Prevost was elected to return up nan papal spot connected Thursday, nan 2nd time of nan papal conclave’s deliberations. He is nan first pope from nan U.S.

The caller pope will move 70 this twelvemonth connected Sept. 14 and is simply a Chicago autochthonal who attended Villanova - overmuch to nan pleasance of New York Knicks fans, arsenic their biggest stars are erstwhile Wildcats.

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A wide position of nan Jumbotron anterior to a crippled betwixt nan Chicago Cubs and nan Chicago White Sox astatine Wrigley Field. (Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports)

So, Pope Leo XIV's assemblage rooting liking needs nary questioning. It is besides safe to presume he whitethorn guidelines for nan Bears, Bulls and Blackhawks.

However, nan metropolis of Chicago has two MLB teams: nan Cubs and nan White Sox. So, it remains to beryllium seen wherever his existent rooting liking lies.

However, some teams person made nan bold declare that he is simply a instrumentality of them.

A Chicago priest said nan pope is simply a Cubs fan, but his ain relative said otherwise, according to nan video nan Sox posted.

An evident photograph has besides been unearthed of nan pope attending nan 2005 World Series betwixt nan White Sox and Houston Astros.

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of nan United States, appears connected nan pavilion of St. Peter's Basilica astatine nan Vatican connected May 8, 2025. (REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane)

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Leo XIV was first brought to nan Vatican by Pope Francis to service arsenic prefect of nan Dicastery for Bishops in January 2023, which is 1 of nan astir important positions successful nan Catholic Church arsenic it vets bishop nominations issued globally.

Francis past elevated him to nan position of Cardinal successful September 2023. 

Leo was reported to beryllium intimately aligned to Francis' teachings arsenic leader of nan Catholic Church, peculiarly erstwhile it came to his positions regarding the environment, outreach to nan mediocre and migrants, and opening nan Catholic Church to clasp much followers.

In 2015, Leo sewage his Peruvian citizenship, wherever he remained until he was moved to nan Vatican successful 2023. 

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of nan United States, appears connected nan pavilion of St. Peter's Basilica astatine nan Vatican connected May 8, 2025. (Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters)

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During his last years successful Peru, Leo besides served arsenic vice president of nan imperishable assembly of nan Peruvian Bishops’ Conference from 2018 to 2023, which apt helped him unafraid his domiciled arsenic prefect of nan Dicastery for Bishops nether Francis.

Fox News' Caitlin McFall and The Associated Press contributed to this report.