At the pope’s boyhood home, the final stop of the pilgrimage, the Midwest Augustinians blessed and hung a portrait of the pope in the living room.
Dolton
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In the 20th century, Chicago was to American Catholicism what New York was to finance or Hollywood to film — central, influential and formational.
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The Village of Dolton, Illinois, bought Pope Leo XIV’s former childhood home for $375,000 on July 8 intending to turn it into a historic landmark.
