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 in regards to the “surreal” second with NBC Chicago, noting his brother enjoying the favored New York Occasions sport in addition to Phrases with Pals with him served as “one thing to maintain his thoughts off of life in the true world.”

John made certain 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 find out 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 sort of stuff, as a result of I wished to take his thoughts off of it, giggle about one thing, as a result of that is now an superior duty.”

John mentioned he and his brother had 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 perspective.”

They actually realized the that 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.”