The City of Dolton, Illinois, may resort to eminent domain to acquire the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Earlier in the month, house flipper Pawel Radzik was alerted by his real estate agent that the modest property he had purchased in the Chicago suburb of Dolton was the childhood home of Chicago native Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, the first-ever American-born Pope to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.
Radzik was originally ready to be free of the house for around $200,000, but upon learning of its newfound celebrity status, he said he planned on hanging onto it for a bit. Yet the city officials of Dolton have different ideas.
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