Bomb threat at home of Pope Leo's brother: Police

[riversedge]

Source: the hill



by Patrick Djordjevic - 04/16/26 8:00 AM ET

(NewsNation) — A bomb threat occurred at the home of the brother of Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday night, police in Illinois confirmed.

The New Lenox Police Department issued a statement acknowledging the threat at the home, but after a comprehensive search, it was determined to be unsubstantiated.

No injuries were reported and residents in the area have been allowed to return to their homes after evacuating, per police requests. Bomb-sniffing K-9s were used in the search.

“The incident remains under investigation as authorities work to determine the origin of the report,” police said. “Making false reports of this nature is a serious offense and may result in criminal charges.”

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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5833902-pope-leo-brother-louis-prevost-bomb-threat/

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[niyad]

1. A bit convenient, is it not?

[SheltieLover]

2. Yup.

[H2O Man]

25. Wait!!!??!!!

Is it possible this isn't a coincidence? That it isn't a random bomb threat?

[SheltieLover]

29. I don't believe in coincidences, do you?

[H2O Man]

35. No.

But I am convinced that we have some really sick individuals amongst us.

[SheltieLover]

53. I'm with you on this!

[AZ8theist]

47. Malcom Nance has often said: "Coincidence takes a lot of planning"

[SheltieLover]

54. Yup. They sure do!

[agingdem]

37. and this why Republicans in Congress will talk trash

about Trump but stay silent in public..

[Scrivener7]

3. Maga is vile.

[hadEnuf]

18. Pure filth.

These are Soviet Union Stalin tactics.

[flashman13]

22. Whoa! Wait! What? Bro is a MAGAt.

[aggiesal]

31. Irony Deficient, isn't it? n/t

[BlueKota]

51. He has two brothers

Louis is the Magat. The older brother John is the one who was threatened. I don't believe John is a tsf supporter.

Wonder if Louis is proud of himself now for standing for people who would threaten his brothers?

[niyad]

63. Nowhere in the linked article is a name given.

[BlueKota]

67. The Hill article was incomplete.

I replied to your request farther down with a link to a story from NBC's Chicago affiliate. They state it was John's home in Illinois.

[riversedge]

4. "What we don't know: It remains unclear who made the threat and whether it is connected to recent public tensions invol

This article does not say if brother was at home either.



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What we don't know:

It remains unclear who made the threat and whether it is connected to recent public tensions involving the pope and President Donald Trump............
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/bomb-threat-pope-leo-brother-chicago-suburb

[mwmisses4289]

39. Of course it's connected.

I get the investigation has to run it's course, but i suspect the obvious will come out.

[magicarpet]

5. Proud Boys on a under cover super top secret covert mission for trDUMP ?

USA,.. USA,.. USA.
FUCK the judicial system,... trDUMP gave us a free pass.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. "may". That is the problem.

They never catch anyone for threats. They can't all be experts in cyber security. Therefore, it must be a small cadre behind all of them. Authorities should look harder.

[sop]

7. Trump's retribution campaign against the Pope is just getting started.

I am so fucking sick of Trump and his scumbag followers.

[Midnight Writer]

8. Trump told Marjorie Taylor Greene that if her kids are killed by his supporters, it would be all her fault.

This fucker has tasted blood and he is already drunk on it.

He won't get better. He will not "learn his lesson". He will not grow into a responsible adult. He will not become Presidential.

He will only get worse. The crazy will only get crazier, the cruelty will become crueler, the corruption will grow like a cancer.

He is The King, anointed by God, and questioning Him is blasphemy, punishable by death.

Nobody stands up to The MAGA Inquisition.

[dave99]

13. it needed a bat to its head as a teenager, too late

[mwmisses4289]

40. Many are standing up to the maga inquisition.

Maybe not always in grand gestures like a No kings march, but in little ways- an act of kindness here, a court case that wins there- people are standing up.

[C Moon]

9. The MAGAfia

[Vinca]

10. Oh, FFS. They need to find whoever did it and lock their ass up.

[LudwigPastorius]

11. MAGAts are too stupid to realize that Louis is one of them.

If there’s any upside to this, maybe it will make him rethink supporting Trump and his Nazi cult.

[BlueKota]

55. It was not Louis the Magat

It was the Pope's other brother John. I just read the Pope has always been closer to John. Also tsf praised Louis in an interview.

[niyad]

64. Please link to that article, because the hill article does not say.

[BlueKota]

66. This is from NBC Chicago

]https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/new-lenox-police-investigate-bomb-threat-at-pope-leo-xivs-brothers-home-in-illinois/3923661/

Clearly states it happened in Illinois and mentions,John.

Louis lives in Florida

[niyad]

70. Thank you so much for the addded information. The hill article

sucks, written as if the pontiff only has one brother, whose name we should obviously know. grrrrr

[dave99]

12. All those pardons shitstain issued are coming back to haunt it

[Figarosmom]

14. Wow, trump said he liked the brother. 🤔

[yorkster]

30. He likes brother Louis, who lives in FL and supports Trump.

John is the brother who lives in Chicsgo area.

[hlthe2b]

15. As asked earlier re: another incident: STAGED by Trump, or NOT staged by Trump? You decide.

Just sayin... Among those with motivation to have this smear Liberal/Progressives, no denying...

[displacedvermoter]

32. Putin would blow his ass up for real if he thought

it would be useful to him and /or Trump.

[BlueKota]

56. I think if it was to smear progressives

it would have been against Louis the magat brother, not John.

[hlthe2b]

57. The Hill article does not mention John, but only mentions Louis--the MAGA brother in the article

which implies it was HIS house. Maybe not, but it doesn't say otherwise, but specifically discusses both Louis and Leo ONLY.

[BlueKota]

59. This is from NBC Chicago news station

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/new-lenox-police-investigate-bomb-threat-at-pope-leo-xivs-brothers-home-in-illinois/3923661/ It specifically mentions John and that it happened in Illinois. The Magat whom tsf praised lives in Florida.

[hlthe2b]

60. And this is why I never use "the Hill" as a source--it sucks. Thx

[PatrickforB]

16. That is how the mafia rolls, and Trump is as mobbed up as you can get. I don't

think this will stop Pope Leo from speaking prophetically, though.

[dawn5651]

17. i hope they get the person who did this.

[snowybirdie]

19. No such reports

about the other MAGA, brother in SW Florida!

[bluestarone]

20. Pardoned Jan 6st group no doubt

They continue to stand by when ever needed.

[BidenRocks]

21. Unless they used a burner phone,

how are these calls not traceable given AI and all the other caller ID?

maga is not smart enough to think this through, which means the cops do not want to find the caller!

Did the call come from area code 202?

[mwmisses4289]

42. Even burner phones ping off cell towers.

So not as anonymous as one might think.

[bluestarone]

43. 202 seems to be a real spammy number.

We at our house have been getting spam calls from 202 868 5207 last couple days!!

[oberle]

50. 202 is the area code for DC

Most of the Federal Government has the 202 area code.

[Nigrum Cattus]

23. nothing says repug RWRE's like a threat

right wing religious extremists are bad enough, but repug
RWRE's are unAmerican failures of the highest degree.

[Doodley]

24. This is on Trump, the Anti-Christ, the superspreader of hate, anger and misinformation.

[slightlv]

28. This ought to lead to less

Money in the poor buckets, and fewer people on the rolls. Real Christians should break off from churches who condone this kind of behavior... even silently... start their own Christian churches or pack the progressive Christian churches. That's just my opinion, and its from an outsider looking in... I'm not a Christian, so you can take it for what it's worth. I don't mean to offend anyone. I like this pope. He walks the talk on a good many issues... not all, unfortunately. But enough the faith would be less without him IMO.

[magicarpet]

58. Really,... for sure,... the real honest to goodness Christians should publicly and loudly,...

... denounce these fake and fascist KKKrishtun and ridicule them every chance they get. It is like how the radical rightwing "conservative" family values Nazis cooped the American flag. As if they were the only ones worthy of flying our flag because they were the only true patriotic Americas.

Same applies to these Nazi KKKrishtuns - it is about time true Christians took a stand and clearly equivocate that the Nazi KKKrishtuns have alot of nerve and audacity to claim that they are the true followers for Jesus Christ. They know nothing of his teachings and certainly DO NOT practice what he preached. This should be made loudly and clearly to these Nazis every chance we get.

They have had a free pass long enough to falsely proclaim their love and devotion to Jesus - while they act as demons putting everything and everyone else down.

Enough of their bullshit.

[slightlv]

62. I can feel the fear... much like the Jews

In WWII. Stand true to the true Faith and be cut down or try to wait for the death of the demigod. It's not an easy place to be and damn trump for bastardizing the faith like he has. We have our own problems with some of the Asatru... so I feel it when one of the "good" priests gets called out like this. Priests and Priestesses of goodwill and common cause should all stand together in times like these. The bridges we built in Interfaith services should do us well now, and not be forgotten when the danger has passed. At some point "they" will come for us... they always do. But I will still stand by the minister or priest who walks the talk of his faith, just as I surely try to do the same each day.

But in essence I agree... more noise must come from the faithful. Trump draws his religion from the charismatics and from Norman Vincent Peale. He is not now, nor has he ever been Bible based. Anything above a whisper could drown out his noise... like take apart hegsbreaths repetition of a fake Bible verse of a movie line and mock it mercilessly in hometown newspapers big and small.

[Doodley]

69. Thank you for the reply. Agree 100%

[Clouds Passing]

26. How convenient for the dump crime gang

[SheltieLover]

34. Isn't it though?

[Clouds Passing]

73. A bumbling crime gang, like they their not obvious

[SheltieLover]

74. They aren't even trying to hide it anymore imo

[aggiesal]

27. And he's a Trumper. ...

How Irony Deficient of them.

[Ocelot II]

36. The Florida brother is MAGA. Not this one.

[aggiesal]

38. Thanks for the info. I thought it was the IL. one. n/t

[Dave Bowman]

33. These inbred idiots have nothing better to do?

[returnee]

41. returnee declares...

…MAGA a terrorist organization.

[angrychair]

44. Started noticing this trend

Where Republicans go after the family members of people as a way of getting at the person they really want to hurt.

It's incredibly destructive.

[FakeNoose]

52. Remember Nancy Pelosi's husband? He almost died

[dem4decades]

45. Nice family you have here Pope, it would be a shame if anything happened to them.

Perhaps you'd like to stop the criticism and tell the world that Jesus told me that he favors the war.

[PSPS]

46. Just more of this ...

[70sEraVet]

61. Well, vance told the Pope that he'd better be careful when talking theology.

The Pope doesn't have wife or kids, so a brother will have to serve as a soft target.

[niyad]

71. Thank you!

[bluestarone]

68. I'm kinda comparing this to Jan 6, where TSF was asked to tell these assholes to STOP. He did NOT

Do it .He let them trash the Capital. So is he calling out these bomb threats? I'm thinking fuck NO. Has any RETHUG asked him to call off his GOONS? Fuck no!

[JokeHer]

72. I'm not at all religious

But I HATE TRUMP and his cult and I hope they all burn in hell for eternity!!!!