NUWAKOT, Nepal (AP) — A month after Nepal’s floods, thousands are still missing and families face a long recovery.
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Sprouts emerge from a corn cob amid debris left behind in the aftermath of flash floods along the banks of the Trishuli River in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A mud-stained toy lies on the floor of a classroom inside the flood-damaged Uttargaya School in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A woman walks past a damaged bridge and trees left by a flash flood on the bank of the Trishuli River in Nuwakot district, Nepal, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
People carry their belongings as they walk toward their villages after flash floods damaged roads in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A house and a school bus damaged by flash floods are seen in Betrawati, in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Rocks tumble from a hillside after controlled explosives are used to clear a route for a temporary road reconnecting towns and villages after flash floods damaged the existing road in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Farmland covered in mud and houses damaged by flash floods are seen along the banks of the Trishuli River in Galchi, in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Survivors of a flash flood charge their cell phone at a temporary holding center in Nuwakot, Nepal, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Workers weld metal frames while building temporary shelters for survivors of recent flash floods in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
An excavator cuts into a hillside to build a temporary road connecting towns and villages after flash floods destroyed the existing road in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Nepalese people perform religious rituals on the bank of Trishuli river at Dunge, Nuwakot, Nepal, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A motorcyclist travels along a newly built temporary road cut into a hillside to reconnect villages after flash floods destroyed the existing road in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Narayan Prasad Nepal, left, stands outside his damaged house by a flash flood in Galchi, Nuwakot, Nepal, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A Nepalese flag flies amid houses damaged by flash floods along the banks of the Trishuli River in Dunge, in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A flood affected woman stands outside temporary shelters for survivors in Nuwakot, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Sprouts emerge from a corn cob amid debris left behind in the aftermath of flash floods along the banks of the Trishuli River in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A mud-stained toy lies on the floor of a classroom inside the flood-damaged Uttargaya School in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A woman walks past a damaged bridge and trees left by a flash flood on the bank of the Trishuli River in Nuwakot district, Nepal, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
People carry their belongings as they walk toward their villages after flash floods damaged roads in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A house and a school bus damaged by flash floods are seen in Betrawati, in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Rocks tumble from a hillside after controlled explosives are used to clear a route for a temporary road reconnecting towns and villages after flash floods damaged the existing road in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Farmland covered in mud and houses damaged by flash floods are seen along the banks of the Trishuli River in Galchi, in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Survivors of a flash flood charge their cell phone at a temporary holding center in Nuwakot, Nepal, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Workers weld metal frames while building temporary shelters for survivors of recent flash floods in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
An excavator cuts into a hillside to build a temporary road connecting towns and villages after flash floods destroyed the existing road in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Nepalese people perform religious rituals on the bank of Trishuli river at Dunge, Nuwakot, Nepal, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A motorcyclist travels along a newly built temporary road cut into a hillside to reconnect villages after flash floods destroyed the existing road in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Narayan Prasad Nepal, left, stands outside his damaged house by a flash flood in Galchi, Nuwakot, Nepal, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A Nepalese flag flies amid houses damaged by flash floods along the banks of the Trishuli River in Dunge, in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A flood affected woman stands outside temporary shelters for survivors in Nuwakot, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
PARIS (AP) — Might a helping hand from Pope Leo XIV partly explain the Chicago White Sox’s improbable return to the playoffs?
“No comment,” the pontiff replied with a beaming smile when a reporter on his plane to France asked whether the surprise sprung Thursday by the long-suffering team was miraculous and “Do you have anything to do with that?"
But the Chicago-born and raised lifelong fan of the White Sox left no doubt that he was thrilled, by adding: “Great things happen in Chicago."
The pontiff's oh-so-diplomatic answer was perhaps because he's had experience of how perceived papal rooting for one team or another can land him in hot water.
In June, he said “the pope is for all teams" but rubbed soccer fans in Barcelona the wrong way by adding that he personally roots for Real Madrid, inserting himself into one of the biggest rivalries in club football.
Real Madrid proudly posted the video of the moment, and social media filled with comments about how the club is “the team of God.”
Pope Leo XIV waves after a prayer vigil with young people at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis near Paris, Friday, Sept. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
Pope Leo XIV waves during a prayer vigil with young people at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis near Paris, Friday, Sept. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva)