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Today's Topics:
1. Read: "What Happened When the Pope Had to Call Customer
Service" (Vivek Pinto)
2. $15 million worth of Tanzanites! See Sudha Reddy?s $15
Million, 550-Carat Necklace from The Met Gala (Mel de Quadros)
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Date: Wed, 6 May 2026 18:45:16 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "What Happened When the Pope Had to Call
Customer Service"
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By: Julie Bosman - Reporting from Chicago
Published in: *The New York Times*
Date: May 5, 2026
Spoiler alert: There was no miracle.
Even the Vicar of Christ can be thwarted by a customer service
representative.
About two months after Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago-born cardinal,
became <https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/08/world/pope-conclave-news> Pope
Leo XIV in Vatican City, he put in a call to his bank back home, a close
friend, the Rev. Tom McCarthy
<https://www.frtommccarthy.com/about-father-tom-mccarthy>, told a gathering
of Catholics in Naperville, Ill., last week.
The new pope identified himself as Robert Prevost, saying that he wished to
change the phone number and address that the bank had on file, Father
McCarthy said.
The pope dutifully answered the security questions correctly.
Then, the woman on the line for the bank told him that it wasn?t enough ?
he would have to come to the branch in person.
?He said, ?Well, I?m not going to be able to do that,?? Father McCarthy
said in a video <https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkGcNbCr/> clip shared on social
media, recounting the new pope?s growing frustration as the audience
laughed. ?I gave you all the security questions.?
The bank employee apologized. The pope tried a different tack.
?Would it matter to you if I told you I?m Pope Leo?? he asked, according to
Father McCarthy.
She hung up.
Even while leading more than one billion Catholics around the world and
living in gilded splendor amid priceless works of art, popes can sometimes
be entangled in the mundane, both accidentally and with purpose. In the
first 24 hours of Pope Francis? papacy in 2013, he insisted on paying
<https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/world/europe/pope-francis.html> his own
hotel bill and collecting his own luggage, a gesture of humility to
Catholic clergy.
Pope Leo rose from modest roots in Dolton, Ill., a small suburb just
outside Chicago, before serving as a bishop in Peru and in an influential
post at the Vatican when he was elected pope nearly one year ago.
Father McCarthy confirmed in an email that the story about the bank hassle
was true. He had been telling a group of Catholics about his friendship
with Pope Leo at an educational meeting geared toward men and boys at a
Naperville church.
The priest is a well-known figure among Catholics on the South Side, an
Augustinian and leader at St. Rita of Cascia High School. He first met
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/us/pope-leo-childhood-chicago-catholics.html>
Pope Leo in the 1980s in Chicago, where they grew up in similar
working-class neighborhoods in the city and its close suburbs, and has
visited the pope at the Vatican.
A spokesman for the Vatican did not immediately return an email seeking
comment on the bank episode.
The matter was sorted out thanks to the intervention of another priest who
had a connection to the bank president, Father McCarthy said.
There was no word on the customer service representative who had cut off
her call with the bank?s most famous customer.
?Could you imagine being known as the woman who hung up on the pope??
Father McCarthy said.
Julie Bosman is the Chicago bureau chief for The Times, writing and
reporting stories from around the Midwest.
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Date: Wed, 6 May 2026 07:40:41 -0400
From: Mel de Quadros <[email protected]>
To: Goanet Org <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] $15 million worth of Tanzanites! See Sudha Reddy?s
$15 Million, 550-Carat Necklace from The Met Gala
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