‘DA POPE!’ Leo XIV’s Chicago roots unleash spate of holy humor

Blessed be the memes and "The New Pope"

Before the Vatican introduced the Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV, HBO gave us "The New Pope" and "The Young Pope"

Deep-Dish Pizza and Malört in the Vatican? Chicago Pope Spurs Memes.

Deep-dish pizza shall be served in place of communion wafers. Michael Jordan shall be declared the Greatest of All Time. And the Trevi Fountain shall be dyed green. If internet memes became reality, Pope Leo XIV of Dolton, Ill., a southern suburb of Chicago, would turn Vatican City into Downtown Chicago, complete with a reflective kidney bean statue and carts serving ketchup-less hot dogs. Malört — Chicago’s unofficial liquor with a burning-tire…

Fed's Goolsbee relishes running 'Da Bank' in 'Da Pope's' hometown

Neither tariffs, nor plunging consumer and business sentiment, nor President Donald Trump’s pointed criticism have swayed the Federal Reserve on interest rates — but the pick of the first US-born pope appears to have moved one US central banker. “The 7th District is unique in its industry composition and is the only Fed district to have produced a pope,” Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee boasted on Friday, May 9, in opening remarks to an eve…

‘DA POPE!’ Leo XIV’s Chicago roots unleash spate of holy humour

The memes, doctored images and tongue-in-cheek references have piled up deeper than Chicago’s pizza and more loaded than its hot dog

‘DA POPE!’ Leo XIV’s Chicago roots unleash spate of holy humor

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American pontiff, the memes, doctored images and tongue-in-cheek references have piled up deeper than Chicago’s pizza and more loaded than its hot dog, seemingly irresistible to comics and commoners alike. Stained-glass windows depicting a dunking Michael Jordan? A change in canon law to make ketchup-…

'DA POPE!' Leo XIV's Chicago roots unleash spate of holy humor

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American pontiff, the memes, doctored images and tongue-in-cheek references have piled up deeper than Chicago’s pizza and more loaded than its hot dog.