Maybe the rain delay was divine intervention after all?
Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich Tweeted out a photo Tuesday morning of Pope Francis holding a Cubs hat and a baseball (h/t DNA Info) to celebrate the World Series championship:
News of the @Cubs win reached all the way to the #Vatican! @Pontifex can now celebrate with us and he asks for our prayers! #FlytheW pic.twitter.com/09t3Jhtsax
— Archbishop Cupich (@ArchbishopBlase) November 15, 2016
This would be at least the second set of Cubs gear Pope Francis has received in the last year-and-a-half as CSN's David Kaplan delivered a Cubs hat and letter to His Holiness last summer:
[SHOP: Gear up, Cubs fans!