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Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?
DIR By: LabPartner
Date: May 6, 2026, 11:43 pm
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HTML https://chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv/2026/05/06/pope-leo-bank-phone-call-address-change
Two months into his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV called his bank in
South Chicago to change his phone number and address.
The former Robert Prevost answered all his security questions
posed by the teller, but there was still a problem.
To change his phone number and address, he was told he’d have to
show up in person.
“‘Well, I’m not going to be able to do that,’” said Pope Leo,
according to his longtime friend, the Rev. Tom McCarthy, who
told the story April 29 to the Fishers of Men at Saints Peter
and Paul in Naperville.
“‘We can’t do it over the phone?’” the pope asked, according to
McCarthy. “‘I already gave you all the security questions.’”
After that, he tried pulling rank.
“Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?” the pope
apparently asked.
Click.
“She hung up on him,” McCarthy said. “Could you imagine being
known as the woman who hung up on the pope?”
So, the pope made some more phone calls.
He reached McCarthy’s classmate, the Rev. Bernie Scianna, who
“somehow” got someone who reached the bank’s president, McCarthy
said. The bank’s president reiterated the bank’s policy:
Customers must change their phone number or address in person,
not over the phone.
When Scianna threatened to move Pope Leo’s account to a
different bank, the president said the bank didn’t want to lose
the pope’s account.
Shortly after that, the bank followed through, and changed the
information on Pope Leo’s account.
McCarthy, an Augustinian friar from the South Side who has known
Pope Leo for 43 years, told the story as a reminder to
parishioners that the pope “is like us,” and “a very humble
guy.”
Born on the South Side and raised in Dolton, Pope Leo, elected
nearly a year ago, brings a special connection to parishioners
in the Chicago area — and across the U.S. — as the first
American-born pope, McCarthy said.
“To have someone of our own come and someone who we can
understand when he talks — and he talks like us, he likes pizza,
he likes Peeps, he likes the White Sox, you know, he likes
things that we like and that we can connect,” McCarthy told the
gathering.
“He is one of the most down-to-earth people,” McCarthy later
said. “He is just a normal, normal guy.”
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Re: Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?
DIR By: LabPartner
Date: May 6, 2026, 11:43 pm
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This might be my favorite story right now. He sounds like a guy
from Dolton.
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Re: Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?
DIR By: kkt
Date: May 7, 2026, 1:10 am
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Wouldn't he be able to appoint a lawyer as POA to go to the bank
for him?
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Re: Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?
DIR By: muskrat
Date: May 7, 2026, 8:17 am
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--- Quote from: LabPartner link ---
>
> This might be my favorite story right now. He sounds like a
guy from Dolton.
>
--- End Quote ---
i swear i will never EVER get over the fact that we have an
American pope.
from the southside* of Chicago no less.
*says this former Milwaukee southside girl.
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Re: Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?
DIR By: acl-ny
Date: May 7, 2026, 8:53 am
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Speaking of Pope Leo, a new species of moth was discovered on
Crete, and named after Pope Leo. Cool!
HTML https://www.popsci.com/environment/pope-leo-moth/
(And now for some politics - I bet you know who now wants an
insect named after him.)
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Re: Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?
DIR By: AbidingDudev4.1
Date: May 7, 2026, 9:04 am
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Wait...is Lab saying he's Pope Leo?
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Re: Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?
DIR By: LabPartner
Date: May 7, 2026, 9:14 am
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--- Quote from: AbidingDudev4.1 link ---
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> Wait...is Lab saying he's Pope Leo?
>
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Depends what he's got in that account.
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Re: Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?
DIR By: animaniactoo
Date: May 7, 2026, 10:29 am
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--- Quote from: kkt link ---
>
> Wouldn't he be able to appoint a lawyer as POA to go to the
bank for him?
>
--- End Quote ---
Sure, but then he'd have to show up in person to sign the POA
paperwork.
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Re: Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?
DIR By: kkt
Date: May 7, 2026, 11:27 am
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--- Quote from: animaniactoo link ---
>
> [quote author=kkt link=topic=4142.msg388796#msg388796
date=1778134218]
> Wouldn't he be able to appoint a lawyer as POA to go to the
bank for him?
>
--- End Quote ---
Sure, but then he'd have to show up in person to sign the POA
paperwork.
[/quote]
Really? The lawyer writes up the paperwork, flies to Rome, they
get a Vatican notary and maybe a couple of bishops to witness,
the lawyer takes it back to Michigan.
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Re: Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?
DIR By: AbidingDudev4.1
Date: May 7, 2026, 11:38 am
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--- Quote from: kkt link ---
>
> [quote author=animaniactoo link=topic=4142.msg388849#msg388849
date=1778167759]
> [quote author=kkt link=topic=4142.msg388796#msg388796
date=1778134218]
> Wouldn't he be able to appoint a lawyer as POA to go to the
bank for him?
>
--- End Quote ---
Sure, but then he'd have to show up in person to sign the POA
paperwork.
[/quote]
Really? The lawyer writes up the paperwork, flies to Rome, they
get a Vatican notary and maybe a couple of bishops to witness,
the lawyer takes it back to Michigan.
[/quote]
This is an unfunny sideline
I have a very rich client who last february fell ill with
pneumonia had major complications and is living in a rehab
facility for 14 months now
The bulk of the money is with me, but he obviously has some bank
accounts and cds and such. The person appointed his legally
documented power of attorney sent me a copy of the form, I was
able to talk to the client on the phone, and the POA has access
to the money.
The bank however would not authorize the poa despite the
document without the client going in to the bank, which was
physically impossible and they had to pay a lawyer a chunk of
cash and it took them months to access the account.
Elder abuse and POA fraud are a huge huge huge thing with
Illinois regulators. Huge.
It is way way way better to have the poa named and added while
you are healthy and able,their idea being if you healthy enough
to sign the poa you are healthy enough to verify in person.
Your regulatory dollars at work.
Has anyone seen Lab and Leo at the same time?
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