Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago native, was elected as the 267th pope and the new leader of the world’s Catholics on Thursday in Rome.

The conclave lasted just two days, the same amount of time it took to elect Pope Francis and Benedictine XVI. Robert Prevost has taken the name Leo XIV as pope.

Pope Leo XIV, who’s 69, was born in Chicago and is the first American pope. Naturally, this led to people wondering where his baseball allegiance lies.

ABC News first reported that Pope Leo XIV is a Chicago Cubs fan. 

Adding to the mystery, however, WGN News interviewed the pope’s brother, John Prevost, who said the opposite — that the new pope actually roots for the White Sox:

“He was never, ever a Cubs fan, so I don’t know where that came from,” John Prevost told WGN News. “He was always a Sox fan. Our mother was a Cubs fan … our dad was a Cardinals fan. So, I don’t know where that came from. And all the aunts from our mom’s side were from the North Side, so that’s why they were Cubs fans.”

When it was announced Pope Leo XIV was from Chicago, many Chicagoans and Americans surely wondered if he was a supporter of the North Side or the South Side. The debate took Chicagoland by storm, but it apparently ended with John Prevost confirming Pope Leo XIV’s South Side allegiance.

When fans believed Pope Leo XIV supported the Cubbies, there certainly were big dreams about what that could mean for the team’s future. The late Pope Francis was Argentinian and famously a big soccer fan. Argentina, headed by Lionel Messi, won the 2022 World Cup when Pope Francis was head of the Catholic Church.