Growing up, Louis Prevost knew that there was something special in his brother, Papa Leo XIV.
“We knew that as a family from a very early age, there was something special in Rob,” Louis told CBS News on his brother’s Friday, previously known as Cardinal Robert Prevost. “While I was playing children’s games, you know, it was already baseball, police and thieves, label, flashlight, any child game. Rob used to play priest.”
Prevost remembered his brother by directing Mass and giving sacred communion when he was 7 or 8 years old.
“Since then, he had that call,” Louis said.
Lion It was announced as the first leader born in the United States of the Catholic Church on Thursday. Hello, he grew up with his two older brothers, Louis and John, in the Chicago area.
Louis, now a resident of Florida, said he discovered the news that changes the life in the same way His brother John And everyone else did, watching television.
“And as soon as he left ‘ro-‘, my mind exploded, because I knew that ‘ro-‘ would become Roberto. And indeed, Roberto Francisco,” Louis told CBS News. “And I got rid of nuts. I lost blown. My little brother was made to Pope. Oh, my God. What do I do? How do I act? I have to change the way I live? I better behave now.”
Louis said he has the opportunity to talk to his younger brother to congratulate him, but understands that he is starting a new life.
“It will always be Rob,” Premost said. “If we get there and know him, I’m still going to treat him as my little brother. Give him a hug, say ‘Rob, idiot, what have you done?’ Take off your hat and give it a nuggie.