{"id":24409,"date":"2025-05-09T07:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T07:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/pope-leo-xiv-grew-up-in-the-chicago-area\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T07:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T07:12:23","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-grew-up-in-the-chicago-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/pope-leo-xiv-grew-up-in-the-chicago-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV Grew Up in the Chicago Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At Catholic elementary schools in Chicago on Thursday afternoon, the intercoms crackled with a surprise announcement \u2014 \u201cHabemus papam!\u201d \u2014 prompting students to jump on their chairs and whoop with excitement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Crowds materialized outside Holy Name Cathedral downtown, considered the mother church of Chicago Catholics, and workers hung yellow and white bunting over the arched doorway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Across the country, Catholics marveled at the announcement of the first American pope, something that had long seemed impossible. But in Chicago, they heard something else: The pope was one of their own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Though he spent much of his life abroad, the new Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, hails from the Chicago area, where he grew up in a suburb just south of the city and attended a Catholic church and school on Chicago\u2019s South Side.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Chicago, he was largely unknown until the announcement came on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Wes Rehwoldt, who attended St. Augustine Seminary High School and then Villanova University with the pope, said he thought the local news in Chicago might have been overplaying the possibility that his former classmate could be selected. Then he heard the name on television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI cried,\u201d said Mr. Rehwoldt, 69. \u201cWe really didn\u2019t think there was a big chance that that was going to happen, until the announcement came and they said \u2018Robert Francis\u2019 \u2014 and I couldn\u2019t hear anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Chicagoans quickly tried to figure out where Pope Leo XIV fit into their big, complicated city, which is home to hundreds of thousands of Catholics. Was he a fan of the White Sox or the Cubs? Was he from the city or the suburbs? More crucially, where did he attend church as a boy?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNo one in Chicago could relax until they knew which parish he was from,\u201d said Bridget Gainer, a Cook County commissioner and member of a large South Side Catholic family. \u201cBecause then I know 85 percent of what I need to know about him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Pope Leo XIV\u2019s family belonged to the now-shuttered St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in the Riverdale neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, then populated by throngs of Catholic families. His father, Louis Prevost, was a school superintendent in Cook County. His mother, Mildred Prevost, was a librarian and deeply involved in parish life, serving as the president of the St. Mary Altar and Rosary Society, according to her death notice in 1990.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Noelle Neis remembers sitting in front of the Prevost family every Sunday at 9:15 a.m. Mass as a child at St. Mary\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou\u2019d kind of always go to the same Mass and file in the same pew,\u201d said Ms. Neis, 69, who lives in the Chicago suburbs. \u201cThey were always there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">John Prevost, a brother of the pope who lives in the Chicago suburb of New Lenox, Ill., said that Pope Leo XIV grew into a person who could follow in the footsteps of Pope Francis, his predecessor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMy brother has great, great desire to help the downtrodden and the disenfranchised, the people who are ignored,\u201d he said from an interview in his home. \u201cI think they\u2019ll see great similarities there. He\u2019s simple, really. He\u2019s not going to go out for a 19-course meal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many of the Catholic institutions that the pope attended as a child are now closed. The number of parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archchicago.org\/about-us\/data-composite\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">dwindled<\/a> to 216 by 2024, from 445 in the mid-1970s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The area where the pope grew up has changed dramatically in the decades since he left. In Dolton, the small suburb hugging Chicago where the Prevost family lived, 94 percent of residents were white and 2 percent were Black in 1980. By the 2010 census, 5 percent of Dolton residents were white and 90 percent were Black.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Neis said she hoped the selection of an American pope, particularly one from the Chicago area, could help revitalize the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMaybe people will feel more connected, because he is one of ours,\u201d she said. \u201cHe is an American. He\u2019s a Chicagoan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Marianne Angarola, who attended Catholic grade school with the pope, said he was a strong student who was smart, kind and well-behaved, though not much of an athlete. She said it was clear even then that he was destined for a career in the priesthood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEveryone knew without a doubt that he was destined for rising through the ranks of the Catholic Church,\u201d she said. \u201cHe had a calling at a very early age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By the time the newly elected pope reached adolescence, he was looking toward the priesthood, enrolling in St. Augustine Seminary High School near Holland, Mich., a boarding school for boys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There, he lived in the Augustinian tradition, with its intense focus on community: eating together, studying together, sharing everything about their lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The new pope then studied at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, earning a Bachelor of Science in mathematics in 1977, before returning to Chicago to attend Catholic Theological Union, a graduate school, and earn a divinity degree.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-1189og3 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Robert Prevost\u2019s school photo in a 1979-80 Catholic Theological Union directory.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Catholic Theological Union<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Rev. William Lego, pastor of a parish on the South Side of Chicago, knew him since their high school days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He saw a lot of Chicago in his old friend, particularly his sense of social justice and devotion to the poor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Father Lego said that the new pope had spent so much time abroad, his perspective on the world was unusually broad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe\u2019s very intelligent, very ordered,\u201d he said. \u201cHe has a very good sense of right and wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The pope retained ties to Illinois throughout his life, returning at various points for postings with the Augustinians. He has continued to vote in his home state, public records show, including casting an absentee ballot in the November presidential election. According to records from Will County, in suburban Chicago, the pope has voted in three Republican primaries since 2012 and no Democratic primaries in that time. He most recently voted in a Republican primary in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Archdiocese of Chicago serves roughly two million Catholics in Cook and Lake Counties, which is about a third of the counties\u2019 population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago celebrated the day as \u201cone of the biggest moments in the modern history of our city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPope Leo XIV will be a champion for workers all over the world,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s only right that he was born and educated in the most pro-worker city in America. The Catholic Church has a strong tradition of standing up for the poor and the vulnerable, and I know that Pope Leo XIV will continue that tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Outside Holy Name Cathedral, Father Gregory Sakowicz said he was \u201chappily shocked\u201d that a cardinal from Chicago was elected \u2014 something he learned during Mass on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cA lady I was giving Holy Communion to said, \u2018The new Pope is Cardinal Robert Prevost\u2019 and I said \u2018Body of Christ,\u2019\u201d he recalled, \u201cand then said \u2018Thank you for sharing that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Robert Chiarito<!-- --> contributed reporting. <!-- -->Susan C. 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