A tribute to Pope Leo XIV, formally Cardinal Robert Prevost, is displayed inside the Rate Field baseball stadium in Chicago on May 9, 2025 before a game between the Chicago White Sox and the Miami Marlins. The Chicago-born pontiff was elected the first American pope in history at the Vatican on May 8. (OSV News photo/Carlos Osorio, Reuters)

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No team lately has been more in need of good news than the White Sox, and learning you have a friend and fan in the Vatican is about as good as it gets.

This article has been updated to accurately note where Pope Leo XIV got his undergraduate degree. (The Hill) — A video of Pope Leo XIV at the 2005 World Series game between the White Sox and the Houston Astros emerged Saturday,

Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, but he's apparently always been a Chicago White Sox fan. "He was never, ever a Cubs fan," John Prevost told WGN News' Dana Rebik. "I don't know where that came from. He was always a Sox fan."

"He's Sox, and then the radio announced Cubs, and that's not true," the pope's older brother, John Prevost, told CBS News Chicago.

Heather and Dominic Jaroch tell PEOPLE about the time Pope Leo XIV — then simply known as “Father Bob" — flew back to Chicago to preside over their wedding

A Baltimore Orioles fan from Colorado was gifted a precious signed baseball by the new American pope—but not before being subjected to a slightly awkward question. Pope Leo XIV, a known baseball fan who was at a World Series game in 2005 sporting White Sox gear,