Two Evanston residents among group who met Pope Leo XIV this week

A religious group from Chicago, including two people from Evanston, met Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City Wednesday as part of an effort to restore pastoral care for detainees at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s processing center in Broadview. Members of the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership (CSPL) met briefly with Pope Leo in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City at his weekly general audience, according to Evanston resident Peter Jones, who is on the CSPL board of directors and a professor at Loyola University’s Institute of Pastoral Studies. Jones spoke to the RoundTable Thursday from Rome. The coalition, which consists of clergy, religious leaders and laypeople, wore yellow T-shirts with an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe with her fist raised.  The group had provided pastoral care for detainees at the ICE processing center until being denied at the start of Operation Midway Blitz, the aggressive immigration enforcement campaign waged in Chicago last year. The C