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We’ve had a lot of fun watching the Knicks, because Jalen (Brunson) and Josh (Hart) and Donte (DiVincenzo) was there, and now Mikal (Bridges) is there,
Hagan said
Well, would you look at that... Congratulations to Chicago's own Pope Leo XIV."
The team added in its post
Our mother was a Cubs fan... and our dad was a (St. Louis) Cardinals fan,
he said
Michelle and I send our congratulations to a fellow Chicagoan, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV. This is a historic day for the United States, and we will pray for him as he begins the sacred work of leading the Catholic Church and setting an example for so many, regardless of faith."
Former President Barack Obama, himself a White Sox fan, wrote on Twitter/X Thursday
It's terrific. I'm thrilled,
she added, speaking under the wood vault of Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral
There's probably three things that I would have hoped for in my life: to see the Cubs win the World Series, a woman become president and an American pope,
she told AFP, naming one of the local professional baseball teamsI got two out of three! It's pretty good odds, right
said Hambrick, who like the new pope hails from the city's southern suburbsI'm hoping a pope who was born in the United States could be a prophetic figure and a sign of a return to true values of justice, peace, and welcoming strangers and immigrants, and standing with those whom society has thrown away,
he addedI'm telling everybody that the pope is from where I'm from,
the 24-year-old saidAt a time when the United States is in a really dominating kind of posture, to have a pope from the United States felt it had a cringe factor to it,
he saidIn Chicago, your team is your identity,
big brother John saidReally, from Dolton to Sox Park wasn't that big of a deal, and of course we were both altar boys, so one of the rewards we got was to go to a Sox game,
he saidI consider myself quite the amateur tennis player. Since leaving Peru I have had few occasions to practise so I am looking forward to getting back on the court."
In an interview on the website of his Augustinian order to mark his elevation to cardinal, he said
While he was in college, he had a little side job as a groundskeeper for one of our parish cemeteries,
the city's Archbishop Nelson J. Perez told AFP, grinningHe loved goat, duck with rice and ceviche, those were his favourite dishes,
the bishop of Chiclayo, Leo's former diocese, Edison Farfan told reportersJD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others".
On February 3, three months before being elected pope, he reposted an article headlined
We talked a lot about (Ramirez), the big part of his development now moving forward, ability to continue behind the plate,
Miami manager Clayton McCullough said
He was never ever a Cubs fan, so I don’t know where that came from. He was always a Sox fan,
John said,
Not only would we welcome Pope Leo XIV to Wrigley Field, he could sing ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ or, since three of his predecessors visited Yankee Stadium, including Pope Paul VI who delivered the 1965 ‘Sermon on the Mound,’ we would invite the pontiff to do the same at the Friendly Confines,
Mr. Ricketts said
Family always knows best, and it sounds like Pope Leo XIV’s lifelong fandom falls a little closer to 35th and Shields,
the team told NBC Chicago