John Prevost says he speaks with his brother, Pope Leo XIV, and their eldest brother, Louis Prevost, every week, but “we keep politics to a limit”. Source: National Catholic Register.
In a May 6 interview, CNN’s Erin Burnett asked Mr Prevost how the brothers, who have differing political views, can still “be brothers and family” and maintain love.
“Can you just talk about that, because I think so many people want to hear how they, too, can have that in their lives?” Burnett asked.
Mr Prevost told her that when the brothers talk, topics about which they disagree “may come up, but nothing” his brother might say “is going to change my opinion, and nothing I say is going to change his opinion, so why discuss it?”
“Families fight, but family is forever,” Mr Prevost, who said he speaks to Leo every day, told her.
He said the brothers discuss “what we’re doing, what’s new in our lives, what we’re doing next … There is that brother connection. And really, what brothers do not fight? You know?”
“That’s fair,” Burnett said.
The CNN host also asked how Mr Prevost rises above President Donald Trump’s recent accusation that Leo is “endangering a lot of Catholics; [is] terrible for foreign policy,” and asked how “life has changed because of your brother’s role?”, mentioning the death threats Mr Prevost has received.
“You just keep going,” Mr Prevost said. “There is a matter of what is known as faith, and it deepens our faith, because we do what we’re doing because itʼs a role we’ve been put into, and we just go ahead and do it.”
Mr Prevost told EWTN News In Depth in an April interview that faith “starts in the home”, saying that ”periodically our dad would take the Bible out and read Bible stories. We always prayed before dinner. Our parents always, every evening after dinner, prayed the Rosary.”
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‘Families Fight, but Family Is Forever’: Pope Leo’s Brother Says the Brothers Limit Political Talk (National Catholic Register)
