White Sox ‘Pope Night’: Sacrilegious Spectacle Honors Antipope Leo XIV
The EWTN News portal reports on a “Pope Night” promotion at Guaranteed Rate Field, where the Chicago White Sox baseball club honored the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) by distributing 40,000 novelty miters and orchestrating a stadium-wide “sign of peace” led by the conciliar “priest” “Father” Tom Hurley. The event, marketed as “fun and tasteful,” reduced the sacred liturgical gesture to a sports-marketing stunt, complete with jokes about home runs and the “pope” watching over the team in October. This grotesque spectacle exposes the neo-church’s total capitulation to the spirit of the world, transforming the Vicar of Christ — or rather, the claimant to that office — into a mascot for a baseball franchise.