Robert Prevost is rather like the remainder of us — he performed Wordle together with his brother and watched the film “Conclave” earlier than changing into the primary American to be voted chief of the Catholic Church and taking the title Leo XIV.

Pope Leo’s brother John Prevost spoke concerning the “surreal” second with NBC Chicago, noting his brother taking part in the favored New York Instances recreation in addition to Phrases with Associates with him served as “one thing to maintain his thoughts off of life in the actual world.”

John made positive to maintain issues light-hearted together with his brother earlier than he entered the papal conclave, joking with him to recollect his pink socks and asking if he watched “Conclave” so he would “know learn how to behave.” To his amusement, Pope Leo replied he had certainly studied up by watching the 2024 movie.

He added, “So it is that form of stuff, as a result of I needed to take his thoughts off of it, snort about one thing, as a result of that is now an superior accountability.”

John stated he and his brother have been each bewildered when he was elected by his fellow cardinals, candidly noting … “I did not imagine it, and Rob did not imagine it. I ought to say, Pope Leo did not imagine it in any respect, as a result of there’s not going to be an American pope was the angle.”

They definitely realized the which means of “by no means say by no means.”

Pope Leo greeted the jam-packed St. Peter’s Sq. in Vatican Metropolis Thursday, repeating a message of peace for Earth, including “God loves us, all of us. Evil is not going to prevail.”