“So many people who suffer from different experiences of depression or sadness — they can discover that the love of God is truly healing, that it brings hope,” the first American pope said in a video broadcast on the jumbotron at the White Sox baseball stadium in Chicago.

Pope Leo XIV spoke directly to the young people scattered throughout the audience at Rate Field Saturday afternoon, telling them that they are the “promise of hope” and that the world looks to

Pope Leo XIV - known here as Bob Prevost from the South Side - will address a packed baseball stadium Saturday, greeting a U.S. audience directly for the first time and offering a glimpse of the potential impact of the first American papacy.