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The morning after John Prevost watched his younger brother Robert become Pope Leo XIV, he received a familiar phone call.

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Barack and Michelle Obama publicly congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, who was named Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, May 8.

As Catholics, our arms will be wide open to the world. We will accompany the world. We will live in the world.