The Quiet D-Day Father Who Kept Pope Leo XIV on the Path to the Priesthood

Louis Prevost rarely spoke for the record. One answer across a kitchen table in Dolton, Illinois, may have changed the history of the Church.

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Since the white smoke rose over the Sistine Chapel in May of last year, the world has come to know the woman who raised Pope Leo XIV. Mildred Martínez Prevost has been profiled, traced through N…