The Internet’s Funniest Jokes About the Chicago Pope

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The caller Pope was announced astatine the Vatican connected Thursday arsenic Robert Prevost, a Chicago-born missionary who volition beryllium the archetypal American pope successful the Catholic Church’s history. The 69-year-old Prevost volition instrumentality the sanction Leo XIV, and the net astatine ample responded with fundamentally 2 types of reactions: 1) the far-right conservatives who whined that Leo was a “woke Marxist,” and 2) each the different mean radical who were conscionable making jokes astir the Pope being from Chicago.

Pope Leo has been connected Twitter since 2011 and has a past of tweets that are present being dissected by online sleuths and governmental operatives to find if he’s a Good Pope oregon a Bad Pope. And portion trying to representation a Catholic leader’s authorities to acceptable an American knowing of the governmental scenery is silly connected galore levels, that hasn’t stopped radical from trying, particularly since Leo has tweeted disapproval of Vice President JD Vance’s views connected Catholicism and retweeted disapproval of President Donald Trump’s views connected immigrants.

Those tweets person caused radical similar conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer to melt down, writing “WOKE MARXIST POPE” successful effect to 1 of Leo’s aged tweets from 2015 astir Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric. Mike Cernovich, a far-right Pizzagate conspiracy theorist who was invited to the White House aft Trump took office, called the caller pope, “a shitlib who was fixed a rubric by the Lavender Mafia to sow part successful my country.”

But that’s capable astir whiners connected Twitter. What astir the jokes? The good, old-fashioned American contented of making jokes astir the Second City—whether it’s heavy crockery pizza, blistery dogs, oregon the Bears? Well, there’s been plentifulness of that too. And beneath we’ve got immoderate of our favorites.

“Chicago Pope” is similar a 1994 SNL sketch. Airs astatine 12:20am, the lone gag is that Chris Farley has a mustache and is doing a large accent. David Spade and the impermanent big (Joe Mantegna) support breaking during it.

— David_j_roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 astatine 10:20 AM