Vice President JD Vance gifted Pope Leo XIV a Chicago Bears jersey during the Windy City native's inaugural mass over the weekend. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and their wives met with the new pope during a private meeting.

A sexual abuse survivors' group is asking Pope Leo XIV to sign new canon law on sex abuse by priests in the Catholic Church.

A group called The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) has released new whistleblower documents accusing Pope Leo XIV of mishandling abuse allegations while he was a bishop in

I would suspect that people are very proud that Chicago produced a pope, and it testifies to the fact that there’s a lot of good here in the city that recommends itself to the church.”

In Chicago, whether it’s architecture or Catholicism, we do ordinary very well. It’s one reason we now call Pope Leo XIV our own.

Pope Leo XIV gets a custom Chicago Bears jersey from JD Vance during a Vatican visit full of hometown ties and global stakes.

“The pope is not your friend. He is not going to sit down and have a beer with you,” he says. “If you think the pope is your pal, will you feel betrayed when he reminds you of your religious and moral duties, and chides you for failing to follow them?”

Then Leo came along. Plagued by the tempests of drugs, murder, corruption and other vices of biblical proportion for much of the past five decades, residents in this tiny burg just south of Chicago are seeing a ray of divine hope in their most famous native son,