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CBS News
02-06-2025
- General
- CBS News
Cardinal Blasé Cupich visits Chicago school known for holding mini conclave
Students in Lakeview were visited by someone who helped choose Pope Leo XIV in the real conclave. Last month, CBS News Chicago introduced you to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy students in Lakeview, who held a mock conclave. People worldwide have followed their mini conclave and their celebration of the new pope. On Monday, they got a special visit and some face time with Cardinal Blasé Cupich. As expected, the students wore their famous conclave attire and showed Cardinal Cupich a personal performance of the highlights from their own conclave. It was Cardinal Augustus Wilk, also known as fourth grader Augie Wilk, who was eventually elected with two-thirds of the vote and took the name Pope Augustine. Students told CBS News Chicago when Pope Leo was elected days later, they were so excited for an American, Chicago-born pope. Cardinal Cupich answered their questions about the real process, his experience electing Pope Leo XIV, and offered his advice for the next generation of Catholic leaders. School leaders said the response to the mock conclave has been more than they ever imagined.
CBS News
08-05-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Lakeview students who held mock conclave overjoyed with Chicago-born pope
The students of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy who earlier this week held a mock conclave were overjoyed Thursday when Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the new pope. The students dressed up as cardinal and Vatican Swiss Guards, transformed a school assembly room into the Sistine Chapel, and partook in all the traditions of the papal conclave. They donned scarlet cassocks, birettas and mozzettas for the occasion. They had to vote like cardinals, and think like them too. Cardinals campaigned for each other, and frontrunners cropped up. Round after round of voting was held, with a break to snack on Goldfish crackers after round three. And then Cardinal Augustus Wilk – also known as fourth-grader Augie Wilk – was elected with two thirds of the vote and took the name Pope Augustine. It was perhaps a bit of prescience, as just days later Cardinal Prevost, himself an Augustinian, was elected pope in Vatican City. "We were all screaming, 'U.S.A! U.S.A!'" Wilk said of the moment the news broke. The first American pope is a big deal for these young students. And the prospect that Pope Leo XIV may one day visit his hometown also fills them with glee. "That'd be incredible," Wilk said. "But I think he's probably focused on 'I'm the new pope!' instead of 'I have to go visit Chicago.'" The teachers at the school put in long hours to get every intricate detail of the mock conclave in order to give the students some core memories, and they hope these children, when they have children and grandchildren of their own, share these memories with them.
