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The Florida -based brother of the new pope revealed the moment when he realized that his brother, Robert Prevost, had become the figurehead of the Catholic church.
“When the cardinal came out and started reading his name as soon as he went ‘Ro’, I knew, you know, he was going to say,” Roberto “, and he did it,” Louis Prevost told WBBH in Port Charlotte.
“And I just panicked and I said, oh, it’s Rob. Oh my God.”
He added: “It’s just breathtaking that my brother was elected Pope today. It’s incredible.”
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Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was announced Thursday as the 267th occupant of the throne of Saint-Pierre and will be known as Pape Leo XIV. Pope Leo is the first American to fulfill the role. He was born in Chicago and moved to Peru in 1985.
Louis Prevost said that the family “always knew he was special”, and tease him like a child almost a day becoming Pope.
Addressing the nationality of his brother, he said that hoped that the appointment of his brother will not become politicized.
“I just hope for others here and abroad, you know, that it does not become political.” Oh, he’s an American, he will screw the church. “Hopefully this does not happen and that they simply keep nationalities, nationalism outside, and let’s simply be the Catholic Church.”
This article will be updated.
