Robert Prevost’s choice to be Pope Leo XIV “is very important because Leo XIII is my favorite all-time Pope, and he was a Pope of the people, representing the workers — especially after the Industrial Revolution, when they were afraid they were all going to lose their jobs,” Fr. Chris Alar of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception told Newsmax.

“And now he did this because of AI [artificial intelligence], where the workers are thinking they’re going to all lose their jobs. And he wants to be the Pope of the people,” Alar told “Saturday Report.”

Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first Pope from the United States in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

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