The elevation of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost to pope earlier this month has been a point of pride for Chicagoland ...

Chicagoans have predictably reacted in grandiose fashion with humor and genuine affection for South Sider Robert Prevost as ...

The Great Pope Fight of 2025 continued between the White Sox and Cubs over Pope Leo XIV’s favorite Chicago baseball team.

The election of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, created a plethora of great memes, many based on Robert Prevost's ...

ESPN NBA analyst Brian Windhorst thinks the American pope should sway the NBA Draft Lottery in favor of his Chicago NBA team.

Here’s a look at what we discovered about some of Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV’s family members in the Tribune archives.

It's not a new or unique thing for a pope to be a sports fan. Pope Francis was a supporter of San Lorenzo, one of the oldest ...

After white smoke billowed Thursday from the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a pope had been chosen, students in every ...

New Pope Leo XIV is from Chicago. So, naturally, the Internet was flooded Thursday with jokes about the Bulls and Bears. They ...

Pope Leo XIV arrives for an audience with thousands of journalists and media workers on May 12, 2025 at Paul VI Hall in Vatican City, Vatican. The audience with journalists has become a tradition ...

The internet wasted no time pumping out the jokes and memes after Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected as the new ...

Robert Francis Prevost became the first American-born pope on Thursday. While his professional sports allegiances aren't ...