Good afternoon, Chicago.
Following the papal conclave’s historic selection, Cardinal Blase Cupich declared Chicago should be “proud to have produced” newly elected Pope Leo XIV, a South Sider who became the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the church.
“Let’s be proud that Chicago produced a person of this quality that could be pope,” Cupich said during a phone interview with the Tribune this morning from Vatican City. “We should be very proud of that.”
As the new pontiff made his first appearance on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, Cupich looked on from an adjacent balcony, aware of the monumental moment and its significance for more than a billion Catholics worldwide.
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