Pope Leo XIV’s Brothers React To Conclave News As He Delivers First Homily
Pope Leo XIV’s two older brothers are reacting to the news that their youngest sibling, born Robert Prevost, was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
John and Louis Prevost have been speaking to media outlets about how they found out about the conclave’s decision (both watching tv) and if they expected it (they were surprised, but it wasn’t totally unexpected).
John, a former Catholic school educator who still lives in the Chicago area, said he spoke to his brother before the conclave — the two had chatted while playing Wordle and Words With Friends. John joked that his brother had recently watched the movie Conclave, “so he knew how to behave.”
He also shared that his younger brother had always wanted to be a priest. But when neighborhood kids in his South Chicago suburb and his siblings teased him about becoming pope one day, the future pontiff would brush it off and call it “nonsense.”
As for the debate over the Pope’s preferred baseball team — White Sox vs. Cubs — John cleared it up: Pope Leo XIV is all in on the White Sox.
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
"I'm concerned," John told "GMA" on Friday. "It is quite a responsibility that he's going to face now because he's got the task of trying to bring the world's Catholics together. I think we're splitting apart quickly. Maybe he can do something to bring it back.”
In his first homily with the new title, Pope Leo XIV spoke in English to thank his fellow cardinals and the global Catholic community. “You have called me to carry that cross… and I know I can rely on each and every one of you to walk with me,” he said in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, the day after being elected pope
