The newly elected Pope Leo XIV – Chicago-born Robert Prevost, a member of the Augustinian religious order who spent much of his life ministering to Catholics in Peru – is “a true servant of God,” who lives his life according to St. Augustine’s “core values of truth, unity, and love,” a former protégé who has known him for decades told The Independent.
In a phone interview on Thursday, Fr. Rob Hagan, who was mentored in his earlier years by Prevost, said that he always referred to the 69-year-old Pope as “Bob.”
