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Chicago celebrates native son's elevation to pope
Former Cardinal Robert Prevost stunned his hometown on May 8 when the Vatican announced that the 69-year-old Chicago native had been chosen as the first U.S.-born pontiff in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.
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Reuters - Fri, 09, May 2025
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Bishop Lawrence Sullivan speaks to the media, after Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States was announced as Pope Leo XIV, at the Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., May 8, 2025. / REUTERS/Vincent Alban
The old parish church buildings on Chicago's far South Side where Pope Leo XIV grew up, attended grammar school and launched his career as a priest are now vacated and in disrepair, a victim of the sometimes painful changes within the Roman Catholic Church since he was a boy.
Even so, the derelict structures stand as a silent reminder to the new pontiff's deep, longstanding ties to the city and the second-largest Catholic archdiocese in the United States.
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