On Monday, Vice President JD Vance met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, where he gifted the Chicago-born pope a custom Bears jersey, according to CBS News. It included his name (Pope Leo) and number (naturally, XIV). “Good choice,” he told Vance when he received the jersey.

There is a new landmark at the home of the Chicago White Sox — Section 140, Row 19, Seat 2. That’s where Father Bob — the future Pope Leo XIV — sat for Game 1 of the 2005 World Series.

Pope Leo XIV was honored Monday by his favorite baseball team, the Chicago White Sox. Robert Prevost became the first pope from the U.S. in the history of the Catholic Church when he was elected on May 8.

Vice President JD Vance met with the newly-elected Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Monday and gifted the Chicago native a Bears jersey with his name and the number “XIV." Secretary of State Marco Rubio as well as Vance’s wife,

Chicagoans in Rome this weekend who knew the former Robert Prevost during his religious studies on the South Side and work in Peru say he will lead the Catholic Church "with a deep sensitivity for people who are the most suffering,

If you thought the city was running out of stories about the pope and the White Sox, well, this could go on for Pope Leo XIV’s entire tenure in the Vatican. We still don’t know exactly how he likes his Italian beef or who his favorite ’85 Bears player was.

During a meeting at the Vatican on Monday, U.S. Vice President JD Vance gifted Pope Leo XIV a personalized Chicago Bears jersey and extended an invitation to visit the United States ahead of the U.S.-led push for ceasefire negotiations in Russia’s war in Ukraine.