Pope Leo XIV's brother John Prevost
said after his election as 267th leader of the Catholic Church
Thursday night that it had been a shock and he couldn't believe
it.
"It was a shocking moment. I was on the phone with my niece and
we couldn't believe it. Then the cell phone, the iPad and the
home phone went crazy," Prevost described for the first time to
the media the moment of his brother Robert's election as
pontiff.
Leo XIV is the youngest of three children, raised by a father
who is a school superintendent and a mother who is a librarian
in the southern suburbs of Chicago.
"We had a normal childhood. It's a little strange, but all three
of us knew what we wanted to do from an early age," said the
71-year-old former principal of a Catholic school.
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