Michael Loria
Reporter at USA Today
@USATODAY’s guy in Chicago. On the breaking news desk. Previously for @Suntimes via @Report4America. [email protected]
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4 days ago |
usatoday.com | Chris Kenning |Michael Loria
• On May 8, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected as Pope Leo XIV. • He was born in Chicago and raised on the South side of town. • Many Americans, particularly in Chicago, have reveled in his reputation for standing up for the disenfranchised and his relatable roots. CHICAGO – At St. Mary of the Assumption school in Chicago’s southern suburbs, Robert Prevost was quiet, kind and studious. Mostly, he wanted to be a priest.
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5 days ago |
blueridgenow.com | Jeanine Santucci |N'dea Yancey-Bragg |Kathryn Palmer |Michael Loria
A formal Mass to mark the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV will take place on May 18 in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican announced the day after stunning the world with the election of the first pope from the United States in the Church's history. Leo, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, was born in Chicago and has dual Peruvian-American nationality after spending much of his career working there.
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5 days ago |
usatoday.com | Michael Loria
CHICAGO − Over 100 years passed between World Series championships for Cubs fans in this great city, but they finally got one. And now, after 2,000 years, they've got a pope, too. Chicagoans don't mind too much that Pope Leo XIV is apparently not a Cubs fan - he's from the South Side and that is squarely in Chicago White Sox territory - because right now the town is heavenly abuzz with having the first U.S. pope in history hail from their city.
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1 week ago |
usatoday.com | Michael Loria
Armor like a knight on horseback. A helmet with bright-colored plumes sticking out. Wide blue and gold-striped pants that can seem almost clown-like. The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the answer to why they will be protecting the Sistine Chapel on May 7 as cardinals assemble to choose the successor to Pope Francis. Their uniform is an homage to the epic last stand the guards once made to defend the pope.
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1 week ago |
usatoday.com | Michael Loria
Winners of the nation’s top journalism prize were announced on Monday. Among them was investigative reporting on how fentanyl became a scourge worldwide; breaking news reporting on the assassination attempt of now-President Donald Trump; and reporting on tycoon Elon Musk.
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