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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 accurate note where Pope Leo XIV got his undergraduate degree. A video of Pope Leo XIV at the 2005 World Series game between the White Sox and the Houston Astros emerged Saturday,

"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.

CHICAGO, May 8 (Reuters) - One question consuming Chicago baseball fans: What team does Pope Leo support? The Windy City is notoriously split between White Sox and Cubs supporters, a rivalry between the South and North sides. Sign up here. Father Gregory ...

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,

Tim Elko collected his first MLB hit — a go-ahead three-run home run — to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 4-2 win over the Miami Marlins on Sunday.