Pope’s eldest brother in Florida says ‘he’ll do a bang-up job’

Pope’s eldest brother in Florida says ‘he’ll do a bang-up job’

As a boy growing up in a suburb of Chicago, the future Pope Leo XIV did not pretend to be a cowboy or a bank robber. Instead, he liked to play priest, according to his eldest brother, Louis Prevost. “We teased him a lot about, ‘Na na na, you’re gonna be the pope,’” Prevost, 73, recalled in an interview Friday at his home in Port Charlotte, Florida. But it came as a bit of a shock when Robert Francis Prevost — Rob to his family — was in fact elec…

Pope Leo 'relaxed' in immense new role, brother says

The brother of Pope Leo XIV says the former cardinal seems "relaxed" and "at ease" in his new role as spiritual leader of 1.4 billion Catholics.Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, was elected pope in a historically brief conclave last week.He is the first US-born man to sit on the papal throne.READ MORE: Pope Leo calls for peace in Ukraine, Gaza ceasefire release of hostagesHis brother John travelled to Rome from Chicago to celebrate wit…

Pope Leo's brother speaks for the first time since seeing the new pontiff

Pope Leo's brother, John Prevost, says the new pontiff is relaxed and coping with the pressures of heading the Catholic Church.

Meet Pope Leo XIV’s Brothers, John and Louis Prevost

The Prevost brothers grew up in Chicago.