When Pope Leo XIV’s election was announced Thursday, ABC News reported Robert Prevost of Dolton was a Cubs fan. The jokes were flying on social media, many of them suggesting Pope Leo XIV was a perfect choice to heal the world’s suffering, thanks to his allegiance to the Cubs.

Leo, formerly known as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, became one of the world's most famous Chicago natives on Thursday with his elevation to the papacy. Born in Chicago's Mercy Hospital and raised in nearby Dolton, he is the first pope to hail from the U.S.

"He's Sox, and then the radio announced Cubs, and that's not true," the pope's older brother, John Prevost, told CBS News Chicago.