John Hoshost in the corner of his soul thought his younger brother Robert could become the first American Pope. “It wasn’t the idea that it could happen, but there was a chance,” said Premost on Thursday afternoon from his house in the southern suburbs of New Lenox. “But I was really as surprised as everyone when they spoke his name,” said the brother of the new head of the Church in an interview for.
John, a 71-year-old director of the Catholic School in retirement, said he had almost no time to process the arrival of his brother into the so-called Petr Stolec. Like everyone else, John watched the drama on television after white smoke rolled from the Vatican roof.
“It was a shocking moment“John said when he heard the name of his brother Robert.” I phoned my niece and we both couldn’t believe it. Then the phone, iPad and my phone just went crazy, “describes the Pope’s brother the moment when congratulations were rolled on him.
The new Pope, originally Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is the youngest of the three boys raised by his father – school inspector and mother – school librarian in the southern suburb of Dolton.
“It was a normal childhood,” said John. “It’s a bit strange, but we all know very soon what we wanted to do,” he explained. The oldest Louis, who now lives in Florida, went to the army. John chose a career in education.
“And do – so we called him since childhood – he knew he would be a priest since he could walk,” said John. “You know, some children like to play soldiers, girls want to play with dolls for housewives and he wanted to play a priest,” said the moved brother of the new Pope in the video interview for. “So he took our mother’s ironing board, swapped the tablecloth over her and we had to go to Mass,“He explained, saying that Little Robert pretended to be a priest to celebrate the Holy Mass.
“He already knew everything. He knew prayers in Latin, knew them in English. And he took it seriously, it wasn’t a joke, there was no game. When he was at first grade or kindergarten, two moms told him he would be the first American pope,” John Prevost revealed. From these words, cold chills are now jumping, because Robert Francis Prevost has indeed become the first Pope of the US.
A new Pope in South America spent a large part of his career, often in Peru. “The truth is that his heart is missionary work,” John said. “Help the poorer or, to say, oppressed,” explained. It was during his stay in South America that the new Pope met the Argentine priest Jorge Maria Bergogli, who later became Pope Francis, the predecessor of the Pope Leo XIV. “It seems to me that their friendship started,” closed John.
