The Pope's Florida Brother, a MAGA Disciple, Plans to 'Tone It Down'
The Pope’s Florida Brother, a MAGA Disciple, Plans to ‘Tone It Down’
Louis Prevost’s Facebook posts — no longer publicly viewable — suggest that he has embraced some of the most common complaints and conspiracy theories of the right.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/louis-prevost-pope-leo-xiv-brother.html
By Richard Fausset
May 13, 2025
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Nearly a week after the Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the world is still adjusting to the fact that he has an American family that does typically American things. The Borgias, for all their many sins, never posted crude or spicy memes to the socials. And indeed, for Louis Prevost, 73, it is the Facebook posts, which he shared online before his brother was made pope, that have earned him the most attention in the last few days.
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Mr. Prevost, who described himself to Mr. Morgan as a “MAGA type,” said the new pope was “much more liberal” than he was — although, when asked, he said that he would not necessarily call his brother “woke.” He said he expected Leo XIV to to play things “down the middle.”
During an interview with The New York Times at his Florida home on Friday, Mr. Prevost was photographed in a T-shirt and shorts, sitting serenely on a patio chair. He recalled how his youngest brother was a peacemaker who preferred to play priest when other children pretended to be cowboys or bank robbers.
Mr. Prevost also spoke of his own fondness for line dancing at the Twisted Fork. The conversation made evident the differences between the worldviews of the new pope and his brother in Florida.
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Charles Ballaro contributed reporting from Port Charlotte, Fla.
Richard Fausset, based in Atlanta, writes about the American South, focusing on politics, culture, race, poverty and criminal justice.
Among other things, he reposted an old video of Ms. Pelosi, which referred to her with a sexual slur, alleged that Paul Pelosi was gay, that he would have flattened Gaza into a parking lot, for readers to keep their powder dry, there's a "war right here at home, a war for our streets and neighborhoods”, that supporters of Joseph R. Biden Jr. suffered from “mental affliction.
“Well, I posted it, and I wouldn’t have posted it if I didn’t kind of believe it,” said Mr. Prevost, who added that he would “probably tone it down” now that his brother was the Vicar of Jesus Christ.
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