One of many new pope’s brothers has given an interview to a Chicago TV station, shedding gentle on how Cardinal Robert Prevost ready for the Vatican conclave that elected him pontiff. Seems the prelate boned up with assist from an Oscar-nominated movie.
John Prevost, the center of three Prevost brothers (Louis is the eldest and Robert – now Pope Leo XIV — is the youngest) informed Chicago’s NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV that he talked with Robert a day earlier than the conclave started.
“I mentioned, ‘Are you prepared for this? Did you watch the film Conclave, so you understand how to behave?’ And he had simply completed watching the film,” Prevost laughed, “so he knew how one can behave.”
Prevost defined, “I needed to take his thoughts off of it [the real conclave], you understand, snicker about one thing as a result of that is now an superior accountability.”
Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci in ‘Conclave’
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The drama-thriller directed by Edward Berger and starring Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rossellini, and Carlos Diehz, presents a fictional story of intrigue over the number of a brand new pope to guide the Roman Catholic Church. After quite a few ballots, a shock candidate turns into the Vicar of Christ.
The newly elected Pontiff, Pope Leo XIV is seen for the primary time from the Vatican balcony on Might 8, 2025 in Vatican Metropolis
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In the actual conclave that ended Thursday, Cardinal Prevost was additionally thought-about by many observers to be an unlikely alternative on condition that no American had ever been named pope. Even the Chicago-native Prevost apparently doubted his odds of being chosen.
“He didn’t assume so,” John Prevost mentioned. “I didn’t imagine it and Rob didn’t imagine it – I ought to say Pope Leo didn’t imagine it in any respect, as a result of there’s not going to be an American pope was the angle.”
However, Prevost did assume his brother was underneath severe consideration. “What I used to be studying and what I used to be listening to was that there have been three excellent candidates that had been in first, second and third place,” he famous, “the cardinal from the Philippines, the [Vatican] secretary of state, and him [Robert].”
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost
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Pope Leo XIV, who succeeds Pope Francis after the earlier pontiff’s demise on the age of 88, might not have numerous time to look at films now that he shall be shepherding the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. Nonetheless, John Prevost supplied some perception into how his youthful likes to take a break from weighty ecclesiastical points when the 2 get an opportunity to speak.
“First we do Wordle, as a result of this can be a common factor, okay,” he defined. “We do Phrases with Mates. It’s one thing to maintain his thoughts off life in the actual world.”
On a considerably extra sober notice, Prevost talked concerning the household response to the gorgeous information of Cardinal Prevost’s elevation to grow to be solely the 267th pope in historical past.
“It’s completely unreal, it’s completely surreal,” he mentioned. “It’s an incredible factor to absorb, nevertheless it’s one thing to be very happy with.”
