{"id":105375,"date":"2025-07-30T17:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/105375\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:34:17","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-gifted-philadelphia-eagles-hat-at-the-vatican-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/105375\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV gifted Philadelphia Eagles hat at the Vatican \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/tag\/pope-leo-xiv\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/tag\/pope-leo-xiv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Pope Leo XIV<\/a>, a well-known White Sox&#8217;s fan and leader of the Catholic Church, may also have an affinity for a popular sports franchise in the City of Brotherly Love as he smiled as he accepted a Philadelphia Eagles hat from Philly&#8217;s Archbishop Nelson Jesus P\u00e9rez and Bishop John McIntyre at the Vatican on the morning of Wednesday, July 30, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted on social media, Pope Leo can be seen shaking hands with the Archbishop at their weekly general audience in St. Peter&#8217;s Square before being gifted a &#8216;Birds&#8217; Super Bowl LIX victory cap.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">His Excellency Nelson Jesus P\u00e9rez, Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia gives His Holiness Pope Leo XIV a hat of the Super Bowl Champions Philadelphia Eagles. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1hzvmdkLRd\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1hzvmdkLRd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CatholicSat\/status\/1950494745911828525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I was blessed with the opportunity to greet him and present him with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/sports\/nfl\/philadelphia-eagles\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/sports\/nfl\/philadelphia-eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> Super Bowl cap&#8221; Archbishop Nelson Perez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ArchbishopPerez\/posts\/pfbid0iK8SvZpfUGCe73bYXX59tCrnNFM3DKkD4pTRS4LtSBzeoE6U6jyLp3HrkvpHEAxJl\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ArchbishopPerez\/posts\/pfbid0iK8SvZpfUGCe73bYXX59tCrnNFM3DKkD4pTRS4LtSBzeoE6U6jyLp3HrkvpHEAxJl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">wrote in a Facebook post<\/a>. &#8220;This was a profoundly joyful encounter with the Holy Father along with thousands of Pilgrims from all over the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV became the Pope on May 8, 2025, after he was elected in the 205 papal conclave. <\/p>\n<p>A Chicago native, Pope Leo is the first American pope in history and he graduated from Villanova University in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV, a well-known White Sox&#8217;s fan and leader of the Catholic Church, may also have an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,9150,1448,2830,1311,3417,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-105375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-eagles","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114943391791958297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}