The Pope obtained one Cubs fan good.
Throughout an look on the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV, a diehard White Sox fan, spent a second taking a witty jab at his crew’s crosstown rival, as proven in a clip from Vatican Media on Wednesday.
As he drove by means of the gang, somebody yelled out, “Go Cubs!”
With a smirk on his face, Pope Leo torched the playful heckler, saying, “Han perdido! They misplaced!”
The Cubs, in fact, fell to the Brewers throughout their Nationwide League Division Sequence after a hard-fought 5 video games.
The Pope’s White Sox didn’t have a lot to brag about in 2025, although.
The Southsiders completed 60-102, dropping 100-plus video games for the third straight season.
The clip is the most recent displaying of Pope Leo’s, born Robert Prevost, large White Sox fandom.
In September, Prevost credited rising up in a break up Chicago family of Cubs and White Sox followers for making ready him for navigating sophisticated international diplomacy points throughout a celebration of his seventieth birthday.
Earlier over the summer season, Pope Leo was seen mouthing, “White Sox,” throughout a experience within the Popemobile in Vatican Metropolis as the gang chanted the crew’s identify.
Prevost attended the 2005 World Sequence opener towards Houston in Chicago, watching the sport from Part 140, Row 19, Seat 2 because the White Sox beat the Astros 5-3 on their solution to a four-game sweep and their first title since 1917.
Throughout a celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the championship run, Pope Leo had a signed jersey delivered to former Chicago White Sox nice Paul Konerko.
After he was elected the primary American pope, there have been questions as to the place his baseball fandom landed.
Questions grew loud sufficient that his brother cleared the air publicly.
“He was by no means ever a Cubs fan, so I don’t know the place that got here from,” John Prevost informed native Chicago station WGN TV. “He was at all times a Sox fan. Our mom was a Cubs fan. I don’t know, possibly that clued in there and our dad was a Cardinals fan, so I don’t know the place all that got here from.
“And all of the aunts, our mother’s household was from the north aspect, in order that’s why they have been Cubs followers.”
