The oldest brother of the Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV has written and shared a collection of vulgar posts and memes on social media.
Among the many accusations: anybody with a transgender little one is “a sh—ty father or mother,” former Home Speaker and fellow Catholic Nancy Pelosi is a “drunken c—-” and “anti-Trump Democrats” ought to “be arrested and tried for subversion and even treason towards the united statesA.”
The tone of the posts seems to be nothing new, courting effectively again into President Joe Biden’s administration.
What’s new is the general public eye on Louis Prevost, 73, who now lives on Florida’s Gulf Coast, since his youngest brother, the previous Robert Francis Prevost, was chosen Thursday to steer the worldwide Catholic Church and its 1.4 billion followers.
In his few days as pontiff, the 69-year-old pope has used his new platform to name for peace and unity. From the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica final week, he pleaded, “Assist us, too, and assist one another to construct bridges, with dialogue, with conferences, uniting us all to be one individuals, at all times in peace.” In a gathering with reporters Monday, he requested the media to make use of its energy to “say ‘no’ to the confrontation and pictures.”
In the meantime, his oldest brother has populated his public Fb web page with slurs, disparagements and conspiracy theories fashionable among the many MAGA supporters of President Donald Trump. The posts go far past disapproval of the Democratic get together, suggesting “anti-American democrat communists” be arrested for treason.
As just lately as April 23, two days after Pope Francis died, Prevost railed towards Barack Obama, whose presidency resulted in January 2017, calling him and the Democrats, “one very small step from being full blown communists, eager for the full destruction of our lifestyle and turning the nation right into a dictatorship, and a racist one on prime of it.”
“They suck,” he wrote on his Fb account that additionally listed him as a graduate of the previous Mendel Catholic Excessive College.
He’s additionally known as for “anti-Trump Democrats” to “be arrested and tried for subversion and even treason towards the united statesA.” He shared one other put up saying “we are actually dwelling in a rustic our founding fathers fought to flee,” including his personal remark, “they’d have actually stormed the Capital [sic] by now and hung most of these in workplace for the mess they’ve created.”
In February, Prevost shared a picture studying: “Your little one isn’t trans, you’re only a sh—ty father or mother.”
Because the day superior Monday, a number of of his posts have been blocked after being labeled as “false data” by Fb. By day’s finish, almost all Prevost’s posts had been deleted.
In an interview performed earlier than the posts got here to mild, Prevost spoke with the Chicago Solar-Occasions about his well-known brother and their childhood in south suburban Dolton and the newfound consideration he’s receiving.
“A few of them, I observed, have began poring by way of my social media posts, and have pegged me as a, ‘Oh, he’s a MAGA man,’” he mentioned. “Yesterday, I used to be on Newsmax and I discussed I watched the chimney and the Vatican on Newsmax, I simply occurred to have it on as a result of they have been there across the clock. … Now it’s throughout Newsmax TV: Pope’s Brother Watches Newsmax. … They’ve it on the little ticker factor that runs beneath the display.”
Prevost didn’t reply to questions later within the day in regards to the particular objects he had written and shared.
Within the earlier dialog, he mentioned he was attempting to accommodate the numerous reporters asking for interviews so his silence wouldn’t mirror poorly on his now-famous brother.
“You don’t need the unfavourable, ‘Oh, the Pope’s brother refuses to talk to [reporters]. He doesn’t want that.”
Sooner or later earlier than final week’s papal conclave, Pope Leo’s brothers requested him if he aspired to the papacy. As a child, a number of individuals had singled out Leo as a future pope, Louis Prevost mentioned. He’s nonetheless “Rob” to his brothers.
“And he form of jokingly mentioned, ‘Who the hell would need that job?’ ” Prevost mentioned. “Rob, in his years within the Augustinians, and jobs he has had with them and with the church, he did have the background for it and the coaching for the place. And we mentioned, ‘In the event that they vote you in, what are you going to do? Can you deny it?’ ‘Yeah, I can deny it.’ ‘Would you deny it?’ ‘No, most likely not. If I get elected, what drove them to vote for me — I can’t flip my again on it, as a result of that’s God’s want.’
“And that’s what occurred. I feel all of them noticed a man, that ‘Wow, he’s bought all of it. He’s the one.”
