{"id":24709,"date":"2025-05-10T11:38:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T11:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/popes-childhood-in-a-changing-chicago-tells-a-story-of-catholic-america\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T11:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T11:38:16","slug":"popes-childhood-in-a-changing-chicago-tells-a-story-of-catholic-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/popes-childhood-in-a-changing-chicago-tells-a-story-of-catholic-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope\u2019s Childhood in a Changing Chicago Tells a Story of Catholic America"},"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\">Before he was Pope Leo XIV, or even Father Bob, he was the youngest of the three Prevost boys in the pews at St. Mary of the Assumption Parish on the far edge of Chicago\u2019s southern border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The parish was bustling when the future pope and his family were parishioners there in the 1950s and \u201960s. All three brothers attended elementary school at the parish school. Their mother, Mildred, was the president of the St. Mary Altar and Rosary Society, and performed in plays there, according to Noelle Neis, who remembers sitting behind the family on Sunday mornings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey were always there,\u201d Ms. Neis said, adding, \u201cThe community revolved around the church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Today, the old Catholic enclave on the South Side of Chicago has essentially disappeared, with institutions shuttered and parishioners dispersing into the suburbs. Attendance at St. Mary of the Assumption declined dramatically over the years, and the congregation merged with another dwindling parish in 2011. The combined parish merged with another two churches in 2019. The old St. Mary building has fallen into disrepair, with graffiti scrawled behind the altar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That transformation is in many ways the story of Catholicism in America, as changes in urban and suburban landscapes crashed into demographic and cultural shifts that radically reshaped many Catholic communities.<\/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\">\u201cIt\u2019s one of the great dramas of 20th century U.S. history,\u201d said John McGreevy, a historian at the University of Notre Dame and the author of \u201cParish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter With Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Because Catholic dioceses invested so heavily in their physical infrastructure, including church buildings and schools, white Catholics often stayed longer in their neighborhoods than white residents who fled when Black people began to move in the mid-20th century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cCatholic parishes were neighborhood anchors in ways that no white Protestant or white Jewish institution was,\u201d Dr. McGreevy said. \u201cWhen Catholics of a certain generation were asked, \u2018Where are you from?\u2019 They would say, \u2018I\u2019m from St. Barnabas,\u2019 \u2018I\u2019m from Holy Name.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even in many changing Catholic neighborhoods, white residents eventually moved out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But in the booming days of postwar Chicago, Catholic families like the Prevosts clustered together, attending the same parishes, schools and social events.<\/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\">\u201cThe South Side of Chicago, especially back then, was very family-oriented, very Catholic,\u201d said the Rev. Tom McCarthy, who first met Pope Leo in Chicago in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Father McCarthy, who grew up in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the South Side, said it was unusual not to be Catholic in the area where the pope grew up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI only knew one family who wasn\u2019t Catholic,\u201d he said. \u201cYou went to Catholic schools, you stayed in the neighborhood, you worked hard, and I think he\u2019s a product of that.\u201d<\/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\">Pope Leo XIV, of course, did not stay in the neighborhood. He enrolled at St. Augustine Seminary High School near Holland, Mich., a boarding school for boys. And as he ascended through the Catholic hierarchy, he lived abroad for long stretches, in Peru and Italy.<\/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\">Chicago\u2019s South Side was solidly working class during Pope Leo\u2019s childhood, said Rob Paral, a researcher at the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois Chicago. The family attended a South Side church, but they lived in Dolton, a suburb just past the city line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt is so far away from the privileged suburbs of the north and west Chicago area,\u201d Mr. Paral said. \u201cHe is really from the grit and the real Chicago, which these days is exemplified as much by the southern suburbs as it is by anything in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The area can be described partly by what it is not, Mr. Paral said. \u201cIt\u2019s not pretty, not leafy,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re talking about highways and industry and railroad tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Donna Sagna, 50, has lived next door to the pope\u2019s childhood home for about eight years, she said, during a period that has sometimes been troubled for the block.<\/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\">She said she had seen drugs being sold near the pope\u2019s former house. People moved frequently, Ms. Sagna said, often to escape the violence and crime in the neighborhood. She said she knew of no one who still lived on the block since the Prevost family days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The neighborhood has felt calmer in recent years, she said, and she is thrilled to be living next door to a house with a suddenly notable history.<\/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\">\u201cI\u2019m hoping this will bring some peace to the community,\u201d Ms. Sagna said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The pope\u2019s childhood parish, St. Mary of the Assumption, had grown rapidly in the decades before Leo was born, outgrowing two buildings and moving into a third that opened in 1957, when the future pope was a toddler. The church remained busy and active through the following decades, according to interviews and church records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the building had structural problems, and attendance started to decline. In 2011, the archbishop of Chicago at the time, Cardinal Francis George, wrote that the building \u201cis in such a state of poor repair that it is not safe to use.\u201d<\/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\">He combined St. Mary of the Assumption with a nearby parish and ordered the building closed because the area \u201cis so economically depressed and the Catholic population in the area is so small that there are insufficient resources to repair the church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many of the Catholic institutions that the Prevost family was connected to met similar fates. Mendel Catholic High School, where the pope\u2019s mother worked as a librarian and his brothers went to high school, closed in 1988. The elementary school in the South suburb of Chicago Heights where his father served as principal shuttered two years later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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\">declined<\/a> to 216 by 2024, from 445 in the mid-1970s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Dolton, 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<\/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\">Pope Leo\u2019s mother died in 1990. His father, Louis, sold the family home in Dolton in 1996 after almost 50 years, according to county records. He died the next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The pope\u2019s childhood home, a modest brick house on a well-kept block in Dolton, sold last year for $66,000, according to property records. It was recently refurbished and listed against for $199,000. (This week, the real estate broker managing the sale <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/09\/realestate\/pope-leo-xiv-home-chicago-sale.html\" title=\"\">pulled it off the market<\/a> to consider raising the price.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Marie Nowling, 86, who lives four houses away, described the neighborhood as quiet. She moved into her house in 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhen I moved here it was wild, a lot of gangs,\u201d Ms. Nowling said. \u201cBut it\u2019s a quiet, nice neighborhood now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<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<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/10\/us\/pope-leo-childhood-chicago-catholics.html\">Source link 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