Louis Prevosi is interview outside his home in Port Charlotte, Florida (left). Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican in May 2025 (right)
Pope Leo XIV's brother seems to be part of Trump's MAGA crowd.
The new pope's brother, Louis Martin “Lou” Prevost, reportedly shared a post on social media that used an objectifying slur to denigrate Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi as a drunk and fed into conspiracy theories that her husband had Grindr hookups.
Prevost's Facebook account has since gone private, according to the Guardian, but he has confirmed the posts in multiple interviews with the media. He also said the posts represent his personal views and not those of the new pope.
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“I wouldn’t have posted it if I didn’t kind of believe it,” Prevost, who lives in Florida, told Piers Morgan on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Monday.
On April 4, Prevost shared a post to his then-public Facebook account ostensibly about Pelosi’s changing positions on tariffs but also used the c-word to denigrate her and then claimed her husband, Paul Pelosi, used Grindr, according to The New York Post. Paul Pelosi was attacked in the Pelosi home in 2022. Afterward, conspiracy theories emerged online that the attack — a member of the far-right — had come to the house to meet with Paul Pelosi.
Another post he shared suggested former President Barack Obama was a racist who destroyed the country.
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In yet another instance, Prevost shared a transphobic meme, the Guardian reports.
Prevost described himself as someone who likes to stir the pot online, a hobby he believes he shares with Trump.
“He says things just to stir the pot,” Prevost said of Trump. “Cause it’s fun to like get into some of these debates with people sometimes from the other side.”
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Prevost said he’s toned down his online presence since his brother was elected as pope earlier this month, and stressed he was not contacted by the Vatican over his past posts.
And while he hasn’t spoken to his brother since his elevation to the Catholic Church’s highest position, Prevost did share that he did not expect too many drastic changes from the past under Leo's leadership. Describing his brother as a centrist, he said not to expect to see female priests or marriage equality recognized by the church anytime soon.
Leo has previously voted in Republican primaries. Records that the Will County Clerk’s Office in Illinois provided to CNN show he voted in the Republican primaries of 2012, 2014, and 2016. Illinois voters do not have to register as a member of a particular party, but they can choose a party primary in which to vote. 2012 and 2016 were presidential election years, with Mitt Romney becoming the Republican nominee in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016.
The new pontiff voted in the general elections of 2024, 2018, 2014 and 2012. Who he voted for in either primaries or general elections is secret, as it is for all American citizens.
He has a mixed record on LGBTQ+ issues. In 2012, at a meeting of bishops, he criticized “homosexual lifestyle” and “alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children” as being “at odds with the gospel.” He has also objected to the teaching of what he called “gender ideology” in schools. But at other times, he has expressed sympathy for the LGBTQ+ community.
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