Pope Leo XIV Appeals for 'No More War' in 1st Sun. Message
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The new pontiff spoke to NBC News anchor Lester Holt, who was part of a news conference for some 6,000 journalists from around the world.
When [Pope Leo] came to the balcony, I looked up, and I was like, ‘That dude looks like he could be my brother,” a New Orleans priest said.
"Why don't you answer your phone?" Pope Leo XIV asked his older brother in the video recorded by Associated Press reporter Obed Lamy. The Associated Press reporter was interviewing John Prevost in New Lenox, IL., when he realized that his brother had tried calling him from Italy, and he didn't pick up.
The contrast between President Donald Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark, politically, personally or in their world views