The church’s sprawling geographic reach poses just one of the hurdles ahead in his duties as president, especially with today ...

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FILE – The Chicago White Sox commemorate the fandom of Pope Leo XIV with a graphic installation at Rate Field in Chicago, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File) ...

Pope Leo XIV is a man of the cloth, and some of the ancestral threads woven to make the world’s first U.S. and Chicago pope are stained in blood, scandal — and even glitter with celebrity.