For decades, long-suffering Chicago White Sox fans grumbled that it would take divine intervention for their baseball team to succeed. Now they have the holiest of supporters in their corner: Pope Leo XIV.
Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who on Thursday was elected pope to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, has been a longtime fan of one of his two hometown baseball franchises.
Initially it appeared that both Chicago teams were claiming Leo as their own, fueling a cross-town beef -- until the pope's brother weighed in.
Speaking to local television station WGN, John Prevost made it abundantly clear where Leo's sports allegiances lie.