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Pope Leo XIV Loves Baseball — Will He Name Its Patron Saint?

Filippo Monteforte/Register Staff
Background: A Knights of Columbus baseball team poses for a team photograph in Boston on Aug. 30, 1902. Foreground: Richard Whitney’s painting of Blessed Michael McGivney (l) and Leo XIV wearing a Chicago White Sox cap during the June 11 general audience in St. Peter’s Square.

The White Sox-loving Pope may be poised to canonize a Catholic priest with deep ties to America’s pastime who could be ‘a conduit of grace in the dugout.’

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