Pope Leo plans to give a virtual address in his hometown of Chicago - at the same time as Trump's military parade

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Wednesday 11 June 2025 18:44 EDT


God-fearing patriots will now have a choice to make on Saturday between watching Donald Trump’s military and birthday parade, and a special address by Pope Leo XIV.

The pontiff has announced plans to screen a video message and mass in his hometown of Chicago at the same time that the president’s multi-million dollar party will be happening in Washington, D.C. Tickets for the event, which is to be held at the Rate Field, home of the Chicago White Sox (Pope Leo’s favorite team), are being sold online at $5 each. As of Wednesday the 40,000-sea stadium was almost entirely sold out.

A prayer service, which is reportedly directed at young people of the world, begins at 2:30 p.m local time and mass will be held at 4:00 p.m. Both will be live streamed. Some 700 miles away in Washington, D.C., the atmosphere will be somewhat different.

Trump’s military parade is set to feature around 6,600 Army troops and military equipment such as a WWII-vintage B-25 bomber, a P-1 fighter and Huey helicopters used in the Vietnam War, as well as 25 M1 Abrams tanks, 28 Stryker armored vehicles, and four Paladin self-propelled artillery vehicles.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/pope-leo-address-chicago-trump-parade-b2768103.html

[bucolic_frolic]

1. This guy has clout!

Humble ticket fees, on US soil, hometown, same time .... message couldn't be missed.

[bdamomma]

3. The Pope

will have a bigger crowd size and of course No Kings Protests around the US than that POS.

That military parade should not be happening in the US, this all to show how strong. ....weak that POS is.

[wolfie001]

2. So far, he's my favorite Pope!!!

And I'm not a Catholic

[bdamomma]

4. Pope Frank

(rest in peace) was a humble man too. Pope Leo is already showing his goodness and political side too.

I'm not Catholic either.

[lark]

5. Love this new pope!

I willl not watch one minute of the freaking vanity parade that is paid for with money stolen from children's healthcare. Freaking dictator is what we have in the making right now, a complete failure of this country is what Pooty's paying for and getting.

[hamsterjill]

6. Leo is a breath of fresh air.

I’m not Catholic. I loved Francis.

Leo is amazing partly because OF Francis, so that respect is acknowledged.

But Leo is doing something amazing here. I commend him for his bravery and his conviction to his faith for taking action. He is putting himself in between the people and the wanna be dictator. It is what all religious leaders SHOULD be doing.

[mcar]

7. Pope Bob!

[roscoeroscoe]

8. Cool

I'm going to be shopping and gardening with my wife. I make every effort to avoid anything about Drumpf when with my wife.

[Clouds Passing]

9. Will it be live streamed or televised?

[BumRushDaShow]

11. It was announced that it will be livestreamed

but I doubt it will be televised on TV except maybe on religious broadcast channels - e.g., the EWTN channel on cable - https://www.ewtn.com/ (I had heard that channel was not fond of Francis and is probably not fond of Leo either).

[Clouds Passing]

13. Here it can be viewed:

https://www.archchicago.org/popeleoxiv

https://www.youtube.com/live/ymA4qt-DOBs?feature=shared

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Thanks for those links!

I expect any additional streaming options will be posted on DU on Saturday too!

(embeddable version of your 2nd link) -

[ananda]

10. I was raised Catholic and don't usually like popes..

but this one, like Francis, is pretty good...

well, at least a hundred million times better
than Trump and any Republican, that's for sure.

I'll watch his message, but never Trump's vanity
parade.

[Farmer-Rick]

12. So a religious leader

Is promoting love....not hate.....while pedo Trump is having his masturbatory military march.

Did not expect that.

[pnwmom]

14. Not at the same time -- on the same day. It might even be more impactful this way

because in the hours leading up to the military parade, the mass media will be focussed on somebody other than Trump.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Well here's the thing

It will be live-streamed and IF the Pope's "video message" is actually separate from the youth program and is not part of the normal Homily in the service, where it would come AFTER those programs, then it could happen right around the time of the parade.

The line item schedule has been a bit fuzzy in that regard (possibly to pump up viewing the whole thing in an attempt to catch the Pope's "message" where he might not be appearing until the end).

[ificandream]

17. I had wondered whether the election of Pope Leo was the best thing for the church after the greatness of Pope Francis.

I'm not wondering anymore. An American pope will have more of an impact on Dumb Donald than probably anyone else would have. God bless Pope Leo.

[kimbutgar]

18. Wait for taco Hitler to attack him in 3-2-1 before Saturday!

[Dulcinea]

19. I hope the weather is beautiful in Chicago for Pope-A-Palooza.

I hope the weather is terrible in D.C. Thunderstorms are in the forecast. I hope it quite literally rains on the Fascist Felon's parade.

I'll attend a No Kings protest with my daughters Saturday morning. I'm trying to talk my husband into going too.