{"id":27282,"date":"2025-05-10T16:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T16:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27282"},"modified":"2025-05-10T16:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T16:49:08","slug":"pope-leo-xivs-brother-shares-his-stance-on-trumps-policies-and-why-he-wont-stay-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27282","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV’s brother shares his stance on Trump’s policies and why he ‘won\u2019t stay silent’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pope Leo XIV’s brother has finally lifted the lid on the new pope’s stance on Donald Trump’s policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Thursday (May 8) the Vatican announced 69-year-old Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the new head of the Roman\u00a0Catholic Church<\/a>, who addressed the masses for the first time from the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica as\u00a0Pope Leo XIV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 267th pope is the first American to take the role, being born in\u00a0Chicago<\/a>, and has spent much of his life in Peru as a missionary.<\/p>\n

And aside from his hefty mission work, and the fact he is multilingual, his position on some of the big issues of the day have remained somewhat shrouded in mystery.<\/p>\n

Although we’ve had hints about Leo’s political stance, with the pontiff having previously reposted an anti-Trump<\/a>\u00a0tweet,\u00a0touched upon ‘technology’ and ‘power<\/a>‘ in his first sermon and shared an article criticizing Vice President\u00a0JD Vance<\/a>, we’ve largely been left to speculate on what he really thinks… Until now.<\/p>\n

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Pope Leo apparently won’t be quiet about it either (Simone Risoluti – Vatican Media via Vatican Pool\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Pope Leo’s sibling, John Prevost, a retired Catholic school principle, has been revealing all the secrets about his younger brother, including\u00a0what he likes to get up to in his spare time<\/a>\u00a0– which, yes, includes watching the movie\u00a0Conclave<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Now, in a recent\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0with New York Times, the 71-year-old said his brother takes a more centrist approach, adding: \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ll see extremes either way.\u201d<\/p>\n

John previously said he anticipates Leo will follow in the late\u00a0Pope Francis’<\/a>\u00a0footsteps, who was known as being one of the most progressive pontiffs in our history.<\/p>\n

This is particularly true for the debate around immigration, as John told the news outlet: “I don\u2019t think he\u2019ll stay quiet for too long if he has something to say.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know he\u2019s not happy with what\u2019s going on with immigration. I know that for a fact. How far he\u2019ll go with it is only one\u2019s guess, but he won\u2019t just sit back. I don\u2019t think he\u2019ll be the silent one.\u201d<\/p>\n

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John Prevost revealed his brother’s hobbies (CBS Chicago)<\/cite><\/div>\n

The insight comes as Francis criticized the\u00a0POTUS<\/a>\u00a0during a visit to Mexico in February 2016 for the proposed border wall between the two countries.<\/p>\n

“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not of building bridges, is not Christian,\u201d the late pontiff said at the time. \u201cThis is not the gospel.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also described Trump’s aggressive mass-deportation plans as a major crisis for ‘the dignity of many men and women.’<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Pope Leo’s first mass<\/a>, he stressed the need for faith and missionary work while blasting ‘violations of human dignity in the most dramatic manners’ across the world and ‘other wounds that afflict our society.’<\/p>\n

He went on to warn that people were turning away from faith in favor of ‘technology<\/a>, money, success, power [or] pleasure’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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