Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was born in Chicago, is now Pope Leo XIV. We have a new Archbishop of Cincinnati, Robert Gerald Casey (who came from the Archdiocese of Chicago). I have a brother named Robert who was born on December 29, 1952. We were both born in Oak Park Hospital - Oak Park, Illinois. We are the sons of George Walter Alderson and Audrey Ann Morin (who married George in January of 1948). We have a brother, John Elmer Gearhart, who is the son of our Mother and her second husband (who adopted us in 1961) Elmer John Gearhart. John was Born on July 24, 1962. There were three Popes of the 20th Century who took the name John: Pope John XXIII, Pope John Paul I and Pope John Paul II.
See Conclave 2025 LIVE: Habemus Papam! | Vatican, May 8th, 2025.
Another interesting coincidence. Our mother's second youngest brother was named Paul.
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