Pope Francis, who definitely has never watched a second of MLS in his life, was gifted a Chicago Fire soccer ball by a kid from a Chicago Suburb. 7-year-old William Morkin wrote a letter to the ...

The Chicago Fire have a new fan in a high place, after seven-year-old Chicagoland resident William Morkin presented the Pope with a Fire soccer ball at the Vatican City. As detailed on Chicago ...

Then, in late February, a dozen of the letter writers — including 8-year-old William Morkin, a second-grader at St. Francis Xavier School in La Grange — went to Rome to meet with the pope.