Louis Prevost, the eldest brother of Robert Prevost, the former cardinal named as Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, told Newsmax on Sunday that he learned the news about his brother while he was home off work and watching the network. 

“Thursday, I was not feeling well at all,” Prevost told Newsmax’s Ed Henry in an interview appearing on Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda.” “So I had notified my work that I was going to like lay low today, stay in bed, try to get some rest and feel better the next day.”

He said he was sleeping when his wife called to tell him that white smoke had appeared above the Sistine Chapel to signify that a pope had been chosen. 

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