PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. – Some of the people overflowing with papal pride are members of Pope Leo XIV‘s own family.
One of them lives on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
His two older brothers, John and Louis Provost, say their youngest sibling Robert always wanted to be a priest.
Louis Provost has been living in Port Charlotte for about four years.
They said that when their brother was in first grade, a neighbor predicted he would be the first American pope.
John Prevost said he expects his brother will follow in the late Pope Francis’ footsteps as a voice for the disenfranchised and poor.