He’s a Chicago born man with some family roots in New Orleans. He’s of mixed ethnic background — his Creole mother has black ancestry as well as white ancestry. Robert Prevost was “too holy” as a child, according to his brother. His family joked with him that he’d become a priest. They even said “if you’re not careful, you’ll end up pope!”
Only Prevost wasn’t joking — he very much wanted to be a priest, and he was driven by higher aspirations. He also learned to speak several languages fluently in early life, and after becoming a priest, asked to be transferred to Latin America. There, he served in poor communities in Peru for decades before climbing up the church hierarchy. On a personal level, Prevost was a handsome chap, loved to sing and he was quite a good dancer. He was, and is, a sports fan, particularly fond of baseball and American football.
He truly worked his way up the ladder — as a young priest, he enjoyed serving distant communities in Peru and would travel there on horseback. He is an excellent horseman, and quite fond of animals. Prevost, or Leo XIV as he is now known, is a humble man and not the sort of man afraid of rolling up his sleeves and getting his hands dirty…
Before he became Leo XIV, Robert Prevost was an ambitious and intelligent priest with a heart for the poor and downtrodden. I fully expect that he’ll continue on the same path as pope. He’s the sort of man who could have been anything he wanted, the class leader with the highest grades in school, popular, friendly, well-liked by all… but instead of going into politics he gave up on all earthly pleasures to join the priesthood instead.
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