CHICAGO — 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 ...

Pope Leo XIV, known as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost outside of his papal position, is a 69-year-old Chicago native ... Posts and memes to that effect exploded across social media soon after ...

Chicago, a uniquely meme-able city, was the center of a ton of jokes. Here is some of the internet’s best work. By Hank Sanders Hank Sanders lived in Chicago for five years before moving to New ...

Social media posts and memes exploded across social media soon after Pope Leo XIV was named and appeared outside the Vatican. Here’s just a sampling: Chicago produced a Pope before a QB who ...