{"id":63173,"date":"2025-07-13T21:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63173\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T21:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T21:10:10","slug":"pope-leo-celebrates-chicago-roots-and-community-during-summer-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63173\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo celebrates Chicago roots and community during summer retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just because he\u2019s on vacation doesn\u2019t mean Pope Leo XIV takes a break from his Sunday duties. The pontiff led Mass on Sunday, July 13, at the papal parish of St. Thomas of Villanova in Castel Gandolfo. <\/p>\n

That is the summer vacation home of the Vatican.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s message<\/a>\u00a0focused on the parable of the Good Samaritan.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cDo we look and walk by, or do we open our hearts to others, like the Samaritan? Are we content at times merely to do our duty, or to regard as our neighbor only those who are part of our group, who think like us, who share our same nationality or religion?\u201d Leo asked.<\/p>\n

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Back in Leo\u2019s hometown of Chicago, it was a special delivery for former White Sox great Paul Konerko.<\/p>\n

Fox News<\/a>\u00a0reported that Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich presented Konerko with a jersey signed by \u201ca fan\u201d before Saturday, July 12\u2019s game against the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n

The jersey was autographed by Leo. On the back, it showed both Konerko and Pope Leo above the number 14.<\/p>\n

Before he was appointed Pope, Robert Prevost was spotted in the crowd at Game 1 of the 2005 World Series. The 2005 team are in Chicago to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the run, Fox reported.<\/p>\n

Back in June<\/a>,\u00a0The Archdiocese of Chicago celebrated Leo at the home of the White Sox. The first American pope shared a video message on the Jumbotron.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many people who suffer from different experiences of depression or sadness \u2014 they can discover that the love of God is truly healing, that it brings hope,\u201d\u00a0Leo said.<\/p>\n

Leo was born in Chicago<\/a>\u00a0and became a missionary, spending much of his career in Peru as a minister. He was also the prefect of the Vatican\u2019s Dicastery of Bishops, starting in 2023 under Pope Francis. He was then promoted to cardinal-bishop in February by his predecessor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just because he\u2019s on vacation doesn\u2019t mean Pope Leo XIV takes a break from his Sunday duties. The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,23273,5386,1818,23274,1801,23271,10814,23275,3417,10816,62,23272,23276,5390],"class_list":{"0":"post-63173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-distro","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-imds","13":"tag-international","14":"tag-news-update","15":"tag-newsbreak","16":"tag-oovvuu","17":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","18":"tag-smartnews","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-text-only","21":"tag-ve","22":"tag-white-sox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114847981617402939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63173","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=63173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}