Pope Leo XIV’s friend and ‘big brother’: “I think he didn’t call himself ‘Francis II’ so as not to upset the conservative cardinals”

17 Puede 2025, 08:15

In Chiclayo — the northern Peruvian diocese where Leo XIV was once bishop — an elderly priest is struggling to figure out how to address a pontiff on WhatsApp. And yet, he hasn’t stopped exchanging messages with Robert Prevost since he was appointed bishop in 2015.