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'You’re going to be the Pope,' brother says told Leo XIV as a child

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'You’re going to be the Pope,' brother says told Leo XIV as a child

'You’re going to be the Pope,' brother says told Leo XIV as a child

"We were teasing him when he was six years old: 'you're going to be the Pope'" says the brother of Pope Leo XIV, the first American to lead the Catholic Church.

Outside his home in Florida, his brother Louis recounts watching the white smoke rise from the Sistine Chapel: "At the back of my mind, I was like, 'they're going to elect Rob.

I just know, I have this gut feeling'." The 73-year-old shares childhood memories, pride, and bittersweet uncertainty about what the papacy will mean for their relationship: "Will we ever get to talk to him like brothers again?"


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