Pope gets a little slice of home with Chicago pizza delivery

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Pope gets a slice of home at Vatican City with a special delivery of Chicago pizza

A personal-size Aurelio’s pie made it all the way to the Vatican and into hands of the first American pontiff.

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A mouth-watering slice of American life arrived via special delivery from Chicago to Rome on Wednesday, landing in the blessed hands of a local boy who made good.

Pope Leo XIV was gifted a personal-size pie from Aurelio’s, a Chicagoland pie that’s been a longtime favorite of former Cardinal Robert Prevost, who went on to become the first American leader of the world’s Catholics.

A chain of friends in the Midwest hatched the idea of getting Pope Leo a box of his beloved pie, and Madeline Daley, a 22-year-old Cincinnati resident, ran the last leg of this trans-Atlantic delivery...