How a working-class Chicago suburb and a tight-knit Catholic parish shaped Pope Leo XIV
- Posted on May 15, 2025
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How a working-class Chicago suburb and a tight-knit Catholic parish shaped Pope Leo XIV
In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to hold Mass in the basement of his family’s small brick home, reading from scripture and distributing disk-shaped candy wafers to his two older brothers.
