Pope Leo XIV opposes President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, his brother said in a wide-ranging interview, saying he would see them as a “total injustice.”
“He sees the United States is headed in the wrong direction in terms of immigration, that this is a total injustice,” John Prevost said of his brother, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost—now Pope Leo XIV—in an interview with CBS Chicago.
“These are people. It doesn’t matter where they’re born. They are people first. And so they need to be treated as people first.”
Prevost suggested the Pope will weigh in on controversial topics.
“I don’t think he’ll stay quiet for too long if he has something to say,” Prevost said, according to The New York Times. “I know he’s not happy with what’s going on with immigration. I know that for a fact. How far he’ll go with it is only one’s guess, but he won’t just sit back. I don’t think he’ll be the silent one.”
Even when he was young, “he had a deep feeling for the disenfranchised, for the poor, for those who were not listened to,” Prevost said, noting that he believes his brother will be “working for the underprivileged.”
On same-sex marriage, Prevost said, “I think he will follow what the Church has traditionally said about that.”
He also said his brother was good friends with Pope Francis and believes “he will be following in Francis’ footsteps,” Prevost said. “They were very good friends. They knew each other before he was pope, before my brother even was bishop.”