ARMOUR SQUARE — Tickets for next month’s Sox Park celebration of Pope Leo XIV go on sale Friday morning, the Archdiocese of Chicago announced
Tickets for the celebration and Mass will be available starting at 10 a.m. Friday via Ticketmaster, the archdiocese said. Tickets cost $5, according to the Tribune.
The event takes place at 2:30 p.m. June 14 at Rate Field, 333 W. 35th Street. It will feature a Catholic Mass, music, film and in-person testimonials about Pope Leo, a South Side-born, lifelong White Sox fan and the first pope from the United States.
Pope Leo will deliver a “special video message to the young people of the world,” that will broadcast during the event, the archdiocese previously announced.
Doors will open to ticket holders at 12:30 p.m. June 14. The mass will be held at 4 p.m. after program to honor the pope.
The White Sox have also unveiled a graphic installation in honor of Pope Leo on the lower level concourse, near where the pope sat in the stadium during game one of the 2005 World Series between the Sox and the Astros.
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