The Cubs claimed Chicago native Pope Leo XIV as a

The Catholic church choosing its very first American pope made it unavoidable that we would be dissecting his sports fandom. There was some confusion when it concerned Pope Leo XIV, however.Leo, formerly referred to as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, turned into one of the world’s most famous Chicago natives on Thursday with his elevation to the papacy. Born in Chicago’s Mercy Hospital and raised in neighboring Dolton, he is the first pope to hail from the U.S.Advertisement A Chicago native would naturally be expected to be a fan of the local

groups, however that gets tricky when the city has 2 MLB clubs.Given that he functioned as an altar boy at a church in the city’s south side, it was

initially believed that he would be a fan of the Chicago White Sox, however then ABC News made complex things by reporting that he was in fact the uncommon south-side Cubs fan.Let’s just say the Cubs ran with that.However, less than an hour later, Leo’s sibling used some clashing information to Chicago’s WGN News(video above):

“He was never, ever a Cubs fan, so I do not know where that came from. He was always a Sox fan. Our mom was a Cubs fan. I don’t know, possibly that clued in there, and our papa was a Cardinals fan, so I don’t know where that all originated from. And all the aunts in our mother’s household were from north side, so that’s why they were Cubs fans. “While a south-side Cubs fan would have been odd, a Cubs fan and a Cardinals fan raising a White Sox fan sounds like it will have its own backstory. Like every pope before him, Pope Leo XIV is not a Cubs fan.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)(ASSOCIATED PRESS)So unless the pope’s own bro is very, extremely wrong, an MLB group just claimed the pope as its fan when he remains in fact a fan of their crosstown competitor, which is a sentence we truthfully didn’t see ourselves releasing when the day began.But it’s no big deal. It’s not like the Cubs have actually ever had to fret about a curse or anything.