{"id":24899,"date":"2025-05-11T10:24:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T10:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-mother-whose-catholic-faith-inspired-the-future-pope\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T10:24:41","slug":"the-mother-whose-catholic-faith-inspired-the-future-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-mother-whose-catholic-faith-inspired-the-future-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mother Whose Catholic Faith Inspired the Future Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her friends called her Millie. The future pope called her Ma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mildred Prevost, whose youngest son, Robert, would one day take the name Pope Leo XIV, cut her own extraordinary path of ambition, talent and religious devotion through her hometown of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Born Mildred Agnes Martinez, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education in 1947 and attended graduate school at DePaul University, an academic path that was unusual for women at that time. She waited until she was in her mid-30s, Cook County records show, to marry Louis Prevost, who was eight years her junior. Mrs. Prevost was in her late 30s and early 40s when she had children, three boys born in a span of just over four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An enthusiastic performer, a regular in costumed skits and plays at school fund-raisers, and an accomplished singer, Mrs. Prevost once recorded her own rendition of \u201cAve Maria,\u201d a hymn of considerable difficulty for an amateur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThat was her trademark song,\u201d her oldest son, who was also named Louis, said in an interview on Saturday. \u201cShe would belt it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most dominant in Mrs. Prevost\u2019s life were her family and deep Catholic faith, people who knew her said, the latter a lifelong conviction that made her a central force behind Robert\u2019s path to the priesthood and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mrs. Prevost died in 1990, after being diagnosed with cancer and enduring chemotherapy treatments. But her sons will reunite in Rome on the week of Mother\u2019s Day, days after the youngest of the three was elected leader of the world\u2019s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Robert Prevost spent his childhood in the Chicago suburb of Dolton, immersed in the Catholic culture that revolved around the family parish, St. Mary of the Assumption, on the city\u2019s South Side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Catholic school was a generational family tradition. Mildred Prevost graduated from Immaculata High School on the North Side in 1929, according to newspaper records, and was the youngest daughter in a large Catholic family. (Unlike her son Robert and nearly all her eventual neighbors on the South Side, she was a Cubs fan.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was clear from the time he was a young boy that Robert Prevost would become a priest, his family said, and his mother was a fervent supporter of that desire. When he wanted to attend a minor seminary in Michigan for high school, she and his father allowed him to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey gave him a lot of confidence,\u201d said Bishop Daniel Turley, who met the future pope when he was a teenager, fresh out of the Michigan school. \u201cWhen he went into the Augustinian seminary, he did it with the encouragement of his loving mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Bishop Turley recalled meeting Mrs. Prevost \u2014 close to a half-century ago \u2014 and being struck by her pride in her young son and her own intense Catholic conviction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cShe was practically a saint,\u201d he said. \u201cShe was just one of those people you meet and you feel the presence of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mrs. Prevost made sure to drill her sons in practical matters, the younger Louis Prevost said. He remembers standing in the family kitchen as his mother explained the steps of a recipe, making any one of her favorites: goulash, chicken Lo Mein, homemade pizza or roast beef.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe learned how to cook, we learned how to clean, we learned how to iron clothes,\u201d he said. \u201cShe taught us all the skills needed to be on your own and support yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mrs. Prevost also appeared to have been driven by intellectual interests. She volunteered in Catholic school libraries. In 1950, she <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/chicagotribune.newspapers.com\/article\/chicago-tribune-catholic-alumnae-circle\/171978379\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reviewed<\/a> \u201cHelena,\u201d a novel by Evelyn Waugh, for a book talk with a local group of Catholic women, and according to The <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/chicagotribune.newspapers.com\/article\/chicago-tribune-forum-topic-to-be-cathol\/171976452\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune<\/a>, in 1952 participated in a forum titled \u201cThe Catholic Woman in the Professional World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOur whole family was geared toward education,\u201d Louis Prevost said. \u201cI think she may have wanted to be a teacher one day, but that never went to fruition because she got married and had kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She and her husband, who died in 1997, probably could not have imagined that their youngest son would someday become pope, said John Prevost, another brother of the pope who lives in the Chicago suburbs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey would be on Cloud 9,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Robert Chiarito<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/11\/us\/the-mother-whose-catholic-faith-inspired-the-future-pope.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her friends called her Millie. 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