Louis Provost, the brother of newly elected Pope Leo XIV, delivered revealing comments on Piers Morgan Uncensored on YouTube, where he pushed back on the idea that the new American pope will steer the Catholic Church in a radically progressive direction.
“No, I do not,” Provost said Monday when asked if his younger brother would be a liberal pope. “I don’t think he is going to roll back the changes that [Pope] Francis made…but he will maintain that”
Provost went on to reject the idea that Pope Leo is “woke” and made clear he does not expect to see any major hard left shifts.
“Can you confirm or deny that your little brother is woke?” Morgan asked directly.
“I don’t know that I would even go that far to say he is woke,” Provost replied Monday. “He is probably more liberal than I am, but that’s us. And again, that’s his position as a priest in the church, as part of the clergy.”
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While he suggested that the pope may expand advisory roles for women, he dismissed the likelihood of women priests or gay marriage being embraced.
“We know they exist," the Florida resident and self-described MAGA supporter added. “They are there, in the church's eye, I think homosexuality, [gay] marriage is not right, it's not correct.”
Asked about a potential clash with President Donald Trump, Provost predicted that, “If and when he meets with President Trump, I don’t doubt there will be some bumps in the discussion and some heated conversation.”
However, “I don’t think either one of them will blow up like Trump and Zelensky in the White House," he said, noting his brother is “not an argumentative person.”
He concluded: “I don't think he is going to go, pull the church hard left. I think he’s going to be down the middle.”
