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Hope meets history in Pope Leo XIV’s Chicago

Friday, May 1, 2026

In the 20th century, Chicago was to American Catholicism what New York was to finance or Hollywood to film -- central, influential and formational. The post Hope meets history in Pope Leo XIV’s Chicago first appeared on OSV News.

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