Overview

• Students from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy in Lakeview are set to attend a general audience with Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter’s Square next week.
• The group has been rehearsing the 'Our Father' in Latin and gathered their mock-conclave costumes after receiving a special blessing.
• Families are financing travel costs, supplemented by parish fundraising and contributions from churches across the Midwest, with some scholarships provided.
• The itinerary includes a visit to the Sistine Chapel, while Cardinal Blaise Cupich travels to Rome for his 50th jubilee as a priest.
• A private meeting with the pope remains unconfirmed, though the students met his brother, John Prevost, during a sendoff visit.