From the Chicago Sun-Times, May 6:
“‘Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?’” the pope asked his bank, according to the Rev. Tom McCarthy, a longtime friend of the Chicago-born pontiff.
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.
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“She hung up on him,” McCarthy said. “Could you imagine being known as the woman who hung up on the pope?”....
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