New Pope Leo XIV is from Chicago. So, naturally, the Internet was flooded Thursday with jokes about the Bulls and Bears. They made fun of Chicago having a Pope before a 4,000-yard passer for the Bears.

When Robert Francis Prevost spoke in Spanish to his crowd of supporters for the first time in St. Peter’s Square last week, Edgewater resident Julio Fernandez said it made him tear up. “I’ve lived in Chicago for many years. And that he is from both places makes me double proud,” Fernandez, 74, a retired doctor from northern Peru, said.