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Louis Prevost, the older brother of Pope Leo XIV, said in an interview with Piers Morgan on Tuesday that he’ll likely tone down the right-wing, pro-Donald Trump posts on social media now that his older sibling is the head of the Catholic Church.
After Leo was elected last week as the first U.S.-born pope, it emerged that his sibling had shared vile content online, including one video that called former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) a “drunk c***.”
Prevost told Morgan he’s now gone “quiet” online and is “biting my tongue.”
“I’m a MAGA type, and I have my beliefs. I don’t need to create heat for him,” he explained.
Morgan asked if the Vatican had called requesting he “ease off the gas” and if he’d change his “social media strategy going forward.”
“No one has contacted me yet,” he replied. “I’m hoping that it doesn’t get that far, but you never know, as this stuff comes up.”
“Sometimes I like to go stir the pot,” he confessed. “A lot like I think President Trump does. He says things just to stir the pot. Cause it’s fun to like get into some of these debates with people sometimes from the other side.”
But Prevost said he’s realized “now that I see some of this coming back at me, that I should probably tone it down.” He’s “backed off a lot of media, and I don’t see myself really getting too much involved” until he can speak to his brother and figure out if and how it’s affecting him, he added.
The new pope “knows I am who I am” and is “well aware of my position,” he told Morgan. “He knows, I’m probably not going to change, and I don’t think I will other than to just, like you say, tone it down.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Prevost declined to reveal the naughtiest thing his brother, who himself has previously shared posts criticizing Trump and his administration, had ever done. “I’m not going to answer that because I don’t want to create any more waves for the new pope than there may already be for some things I’ve said,” he told Morgan.
Prevost also revealed he’d served on the same U.S. Navy ship as first-term Trump White House chief strategist-turned-MAGA flamethrower Steve Bannon, although they don’t know each other.
And he predicted that, under the papacy of his brother, who he said isn’t “super political,” he didn’t envision priests being allowed to marry, nor women allowed to become priests, nor the endorsement of gay marriage.
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Women would perhaps be appointed to senior advisory roles, and members of the LGBTQ+ community wouldn’t be pushed out of the church, he added, suggesting his brother would follow much the same path as his predecessor, the late Pope Francis.
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