Group of Milwaukee students visiting Rome with hopes to meet Pope Leo

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A group of Milwaukee students are in Rome with hopes of meeting the new pope. 

Twenty-four seniors from St. Anthony High School left this past weekend, they had an audience with the late Pope Francis set up through a cardinal who is from Wisconsin. 

They are now hoping to meet with Pope Leo on Wednesday, June 11. 

Two of the students who are altar boys here in Milwaukee are also set to be servers at mass in the Sistine Chapel. 

CBS 58