White Sox to honor Pope Leo XIV with graphic set up at Charge Subject

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Pope Leo XIV is getting recognition on the Chicago White Sox's ballpark, Charge Subject, to commemorate his 2005 World Sequence attendance.

The staff plans to unveil a graphic Monday that honors the pope .

Final week, Chicago native Robert Prevost revealed his White Sox fandom, and photographs of Prevost attending Sport 1 of the 2005 World Sequence surfaced on social media.

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Followers stroll outdoors Charge Subject earlier than a sport between the Chicago White Sox and the Boston Crimson Sox. (Patrick Gorski/Imagn Photographs)

By pure probability, Prevost was shown on the MLB on FOX broadcast for that sport at U.S. Mobile Subject Oct. 22, 2005, and the cameras caught him in the course of the high of the ninth inning because the White Sox have been clinching a 5-3 win over the Houston Astros.

The brand new graphic at Charge Subject marks the placement the place the longer term pope cheered for Chicago in that 5-3, Sport 1 win, the primary of a four-game sweep for the title.

The staff stated the pillar art work commemorates the pope’s Chicago roots "and the unifying energy of baseball on the world stage."

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Pope Leo XIV (Vatican Media)

In line with the White Sox, the pope attended the sport with the late Ed Schmit, a household pal and season ticket holder. They knew one another by means of their work at a Catholic highschool on Chicago’s South Aspect, and Schmit’s son, Nick, stays the account holder for the pope’s World Sequence seat.

The White Sox, who've struggled in recent times, and their followers have embraced their connection to the brand new pope since he was elected. The staff stated it despatched a jersey and a hat to the Vatican after the announcement.

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Pope Leo XIV delivers the Regina Caeli Prayer from St Peter's Basilica within the Vatican Might 11, 2025. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP through Getty Photographs)

A bunch of White Sox followers dressed because the pope and watched a 13-3 loss to the crosstown Cubs from the bleachers at Wrigley Subject Friday afternoon.

The Related Press contributed to this report.

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