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Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
What we know about Pope Leo XIV's scheduled video appearance at Chicago event
In late May 2025, numerous Snopes readers asked about the accuracy of reports that Pope Leo XIV would participate in a June 14 event in Chicago. Many wanted to know specifically if the pope would be leading Mass via video message in Rate Field, home of the White Sox baseball team. Numerous posts on X and Facebook noted that Pope Leo was planning to perform the Mass — the Catholic liturgical service — for the occasion. A few posts noted that the Mass would be held on the same day as U.S. President Donald Trump's "birthday military parade." We can confirm that Pope Leo will deliver a video message at an event celebrating the newly elected pontiff in Rate Field in Chicago but he will not participate in the Mass. As of this writing, we do not know the details of his speech. We reached out to the Holy See's office and the Archdiocese of Chicago. Yasmin Quiroz, a spokesperson at the Chicago Archdiocese's office told us that Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, would be the main celebrant and homilist — meaning he would deliver a short lecture on a moral theme during Mass. The pope would send a video message but would not be a part of the Mass. Quiroz noted that the pope's video message would be recorded in advance. They had not yet received it as of this writing, so they did not know how long it would be. Per the Archdiocese of Chicago's website, on June 14, Pope Leo "will greet us in Chicago and offer a special video message to the young people of the world, which will be broadcast first from our event." The event is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. that day and Mass will take place at 4 p.m. (Screenshot via Tickets are available on May 30 via Ticketmaster. Cupich also released a video message saying the event would be a celebration of Pope Leo: According to the Catholic News Agency, the event will include music, film, a Mass, and in-person testimonials about the pope. As we have reported previously, Pope Leo grew up in Chicago. According to his family, he is also a supporter of Chicago's White Sox baseball team. Trump will mark June 14 with a military parade in Washington, D.C. June 14, 1775, was the date the Continental Army was officially created and is considered the U.S. Army's official birthday. It also happens to be Trump's birthday. The Archdiocese's office denied any connection between the chosen date for Chicago's celebration for the pope and the military parade in Washington D.C. "It was the soonest Saturday when the White Sox were not playing and there was no major festival or concert nearby. The choice had nothing to do with celebrations elsewhere," Quiroz said. "A Special Invitation from Cardinal Blase Cupich." YouTube, CatholicChicago, 17 May 2025, Accessed 29 May 2025. "Ask the Register: How Long Can a Homily Be?" Catholic Diocese of Lincoln, 3 Mar. 2023, Accessed 29 May 2025. "Cardinal Blase Joseph Cupich." The College of Cardinals Report, 23 Nov. 2024, Accessed 29 May 2025. Christensen, Laerke. "No Proof Pope Leo XIV Played Jazz Trombone under the Name 'Bobby Prev.'" Snopes, 9 May 2025, Accessed 29 May 2025. Cooper, Helene. "Trump Is Getting the Military Parade He Wanted in His First Term." The New York Times, 27 May 2025. Accessed 29 May 2025. "Pope Leo XIV." Archdiocese of Chicago. Accessed 29 May 2025. "Pope Leo XIV to Address Youth by Video at June 14 Chicago Event." Catholic News Agency, Accessed 29 May 2025. Waldstein, David. "A Pope Who Ministers to the Suffering? Yup, He's a White Sox Fan." The New York Times, 10 May 2025. Accessed 29 May 2025.
CNN
17-05-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Archbishop of Pope Leo's prior church tells CNN what the pope means for American Catholics
Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich reflects on Pope Leo's character, leadership style, and what his papacy signals for American Catholics in an interview with CNN's Vatican correspondent Christopher Lamb.
CNN
17-05-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Archbishop of Pope Leo's prior church tells CNN what the pope means for American Catholics
Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich reflects on Pope Leo's character, leadership style, and what his papacy signals for American Catholics in an interview with CNN's Vatican correspondent Christopher Lamb.
CNN
17-05-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Archbishop of Pope Leo's prior church tells CNN what the pope means for American Catholics
Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich reflects on Pope Leo's character, leadership style, and what his papacy signals for American Catholics in an interview with CNN's Vatican correspondent Christopher Lamb.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Chicago archbishop says Pope Leo will focus on immigration, drug trade, rising sea levels
Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, said on Sunday that he thinks Pope Leo XIV will carry forward Francis's commitment and focus on immigration, climate change and human trafficking. 'I think he's going to help complete and complement our political agenda,' Cupich told ABC News's Martha Raddatz in a 'This Week' interview from the Vatican City. 'He'll still talk a lot about the immigrants as well because he knows about the sufferings of people and the real needs that they have for a better life. And he knows too that people in Oceania, for instance, where the rising sea levels are just … overwhelming those islands, where people are trying to escape,' the archbishop continued. 'He sees the drug trade that's happening in Central and South America, where there are weapons from the United States going there. He knows that those people need an option. And he'll call for, I think, as the bishops have in the United States, fixing this broken immigration system,' he added. In an interview on CBS News's 'Face the Nation,' Cupich said he thinks Pope Leo feels an 'obligation' to speak about issues of the modern day — from artificial intelligence to global politics, as Francis did. 'He sees this opportunity right now in his service as Leo XIV to take up the challenge of a new technology, namely artificial intelligence, and what that means to humanity,' Cupich said. 'I think that he feels an obligation, as I think popes have in the modern era, to speak to the issues of the day, because we live in a world in which there are real challenges globally,' he added. 'There is, I think, a fresh moment for us to examine, what are the human dimensions of immigration? How do we see global warming impacting us? How the issues related to the sufferings of humanity should impact all of us and make all of us aware and participate in solutions.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
