Yes, Pope Leo XIV really attended the game 1 from the 2005 World Series

Pope Leo XIV, now the heir to St. Peter, runs the Catholic Church of 1.4 billion billion in a holy role that few others will ever possess. Because of this, some top -quality relativized facts about the new pope appeared.

The Chicago missionary, Robert Prerazost, was elected on May 8, becoming the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Church. Leo, 69, served his career in Peru and took over the powerful Episcopal office in the Vatican before inheriting Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

Much has emerged in his Chicago Sports Fand, which of the two baseball teams in his hometown supports.

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At first he said he was cheering for Chicago CubsPope’s brother, John Prevost, set the record straight about Leovo The baseball of the main league Loyalty in an interview with WGN-TV. Pope is in fact a Chicago White Sox fan.

“He was never a fan of Cubs, so I don’t know where it came from,” John said, adding that the confusion could come from the fact that the mother’s side of the family was northern Siders and Cubs fans. “He was always a Sox fan.”

In fact, he supported White Sox for at least the last two decades, which was proven when Leo’s shots were cheering for White Sox during the recently appeared in the 2005 World series.

White Sox has led Houston Astros 5-3 with two outputs at the bottom of the ninth inning of the 1st World Series Game 2005, when Fox cameras belonged to a seemingly ordinary fan. This man is now the pope. But on that fateful day, he looked like every fan of White Sox would at that moment-creepy, eager to win the game.

In accordance with Leo’s prayers. White Sox’s relief Bobby Janks closed Astros in Game 1, and Chicago continued to sweep Houston and won the 2005 World Series.

White Sox has not experienced many blessings from that year. They left 99-63 in 2005, their best record in the 21st century, and for the first time since 1917 they won the world series. Chicago won the franchise (in Era of 162 games) 41 games in 2024 and sat on 10-28 this season.

Associated Press contributed to this report.

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