Longtime Chicago friend describes first American pope as ‘very dedicated’
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Longtime Chicago friend describes first American pope as ‘very dedicated’
By BETH HUNDSDORFER \nCapitol News Illinois \[email protected] CHICAGO – As the red velvet curtains at the Vatican parted, a priest realized that his college pal from the South Side of Chicago that he knows as “Bob” had been elected the first American pope.“Oh, dear God,” the Very Rev. Anthony Benedetto Pizzo, the prior provincial of the Augustinian Order in Chicago, said as he heard the news. Pizzo knew Robert Prevost could be named Pope, but it was an outside chance. Prevost was just named cardinal in 2023. Pope Francis named Prevost the Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, whose job it is to ..