Pope casts maill-in ballot from Rome to Will County
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The pope has voted ahead of Tuesday’s general election, and he cast his ballot in Will County.Pope Leo XIV requested a mail-in ballot based on a New Lenox address he has used in the past, Will County Clerk Annette Parker said Friday.“A vote-by-mail ballot was requested,” she said. “It was sent to his New Lenox address.”Past votes cast by Robert Prevost did not capture the world’s attention as it has now that he is pope.Numerous news outlets have run stories on Pope Leo XIV voting in the Nov. 3 election.The Catholic Church does not claim infallibility on temporal matters, and the Vatican has said the pope’s mail-in ballot came out of Chicago.“He’s not registered in Chicago,” Parker said. “He’s registered in Will County.”The mail-in ballot comes out of New Lenox, she said.Pope Leo XIV has a brother who lives in New Lenox. The pope also formerly served at Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox, where he lived at the friary for a year in the 1980s.As of Thursday, the pope’s ballot ha