Pope Leo XIV delivered a holy heckle to at least one Chicago Cubs fan who determined to yell “Go Cubs!” to him throughout a parade in Vatican Metropolis.
“Han perdido! They misplaced!” replied Leo, a lifelong Chicago White Sox fan, in Spanish and English.
The Cubs fell to the San Diego Padres within the Nationwide League Wild Card Sequence to finish their season earlier this month. The White Sox, for his or her half, misplaced greater than 100 common season video games for the third straight yr, ending 60-102, 27 video games out of the playoff image.
The White Sox shared a video of the alternate via X, displaying Leo, 70, atop the popemobile, waving to the gang because the Cubs fan chastised him.
“That's our Pope,” the caption learn.
Leo turned the primary American pope when he ascended to the papacy in Could, following the dying of Pope Francis at age 88. The Chicago native has been open about his sports activities fandom, significantly his allegiance to the South Siders.
The now-Pope notably attended Sport 1 of the 2005 World Sequence, by which the White Sox defeated the Houston Astros on their solution to their first championship in 88 years. The crew, in flip, has embraced its most well-known fan, unveiling a mural of him subsequent to the part he sat in that evening.
The mural reveals a present depiction of the Pope, born Robert Prevost, with a picture of him at that recreation within the higher proper nook. The picture is from the Fox broadcast within the ninth inning, which caught the long run pontiff in a crowd response shot.
“He sat in row 19, seat 2,” Nick Schmit informed The Athletic in Could. (Schmit's father, Eddie Schmit Jr., introduced Leo to the sport.) “My dad all the time sat in row 19, seat 1. He by no means gave that seat as much as anyone. That was his seat. So when he took individuals, these individuals would sit subsequent to him, normally.”
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Leo credited rising up in Chicago amid the Cubs-White Sox rivalry for making ready him to navigate international diplomacy.
“At dwelling, I grew up a White Sox fan, however my mom was a Cubs fan, so that you couldn't be a type of followers that shut out the opposite facet,” he informed Vatican reporter Elise Ann Allen in an interview for his upcoming biography in September.
“We realized, even in sports activities, to have an open, dialogical, pleasant and never offended aggressive stance on issues like that, as a result of we'd not have gotten dinner had we,” he added.
Leo was additionally noticed carrying a ‘47 branded White Sox cap on the Vatican in June. He stated it was a present from a pair who cheers for the Boston Pink Sox. (He additionally publicly wore a ‘47 cap for his alma mater, Villanova College and is a fan of Wildcats basketball.)
“He's the final word influencer,” Patrick Cassidy, Vice President of Advertising at ‘47, informed The Athletic on the time. “What the Pope is carrying is the precise mannequin {that a} style-conscious fan can get on ‘47brand.com. That's fairly cool.”
