Leon XIV is a "humble, quiet and solid" man, according to a teenage friend

New Lenox (Chicago, USA), 9 May (EFE).- Augustinian father John Merkelis, who shared six crucial years of adolescence (from 14 to 20) with Pope Leo XIV today, describes him first of all as “a humble man,” but at the same time “quiet and solid.” Merkelis, president of a high school of Catholic confession owned by the Augustinians – the same order of the pope – on the outskirts of Chicago, is one of the few remaining in this city that can boast of…