Despite some initial reporting from ABC News that named him as a Cubs fan, it turns out that he actually is a White Sox fan! Pope Leo's brother revealed the information in an interview on Thursday afternoon. Now you know the answer!

The debate over Pope Leo XIV's favorite baseball team has swept Chicago into a fierce debate over the Cubs and Sox

As soon as news broke that Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV had been elected, questions about his looming papacy began to swirl, including one unique query.

His mother was a Cubs fan and his father was a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals. The Chicago Sun-Times obtained a photo from a family friend of Pope Leo at a World Series game in 2005, a season that ...

"He's Sox, and then the radio announced Cubs, and that's not true," the pope's older brother, John Prevost, told CBS News Chicago.

CHICAGO, May 8 (Reuters) - One question consuming Chicago baseball fans: What team does Pope Leo support? The Windy City is notoriously split between White Sox and Cubs supporters, a rivalry between the South and North sides. Sign up here. Father Gregory ...

“Hey, Chicago. He’s a Cubs fan ... but he approved of the Sox’s social media department poking fun at the Cubs’ claim to Pope Leo XIV, which ignited the Great Pope Fight of 2025.

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was named Thursday as the first ever American pope – and folks in the Windy City are having a blast over it. “From now on, all communion wafers shall be deep dish ,” one commenter quipped on X. Chicago sports fans wasted no time jumping on the bandwagon.