Tickets for a celebration honoring Pope Leo XIV at Chicago’s Rate Field next month will go on sale soon.
According to the Archdiocese of Chicago, those tickets for the June 14 event will go on sale Friday morning through Ticketmaster.
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Tickets for the event will cost $5, and on-site parking will be available for an additional $5, according to the Archdiocese of Chicago.
According to the Archdiocese of Chicago, Pope Leo XIV will address the crowd via a video message during the event. The message will be aimed at “the young people of the world,” and will make its broadcast debut during the event, officials said.
According to the Archdiocese of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich will be the main celebrant and will be the homilist at the mass that will follow the celebration.
Chuck Swirsky, the radio voice of the Chicago Bulls, will serve as the emcee at the event, which will feature music and other speakers prior to mass at 4 p.m.
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The seating map appears to have tickets available in all sections of the ballpark, in addition to floor-level seating on the field.
In addition to the video message, there will also be musical performances and a variety of other programming, concluding with a Catholic mass at 4 p.m., according to the website.
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SIGN UP Gates will open to the ballpark on Saturday, June 14 at 12:30 p.m., with programming getting underway at 2:30 p.m. The mass will get underway at 4 p.m.
More information can be located on the Archdiocese of Chicago’s website.
After some wrangling over his baseball allegiance, the pope’s brother John Prevost revealed that his brother is a White Sox fan, and in short order video emerged of him attending Game 2 of the 2005 World Series at Rate Field.
In honor of Pope Leo, the White Sox have unveiled a graphic installation in the lower concourse of the ballpark.
It’s unclear whether Pope Leo will visit Chicago, with his brother saying that his focus is currently on attending to business within the Vatican as he begins his papacy.
If he does visit his hometown, he would become just the second pope to come to Chicago, with Pope John Paul II holding a mass in Chicago’s Grant Park in 1979.
