{"id":780325,"date":"2026-05-07T19:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/780325\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:42:25","slug":"chicago-area-bank-clerk-hangs-up-on-pope-leo-formerly-robert-prevost-thinking-it-was-a-prank-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/780325\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago-area bank clerk hangs up on Pope Leo, formerly Robert Prevost, thinking it was a prank call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) &#8212; It turns out even the pope cannot escape customer service hassles, according to a Naperville priest.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church Rev. Tom McCarthy recently told a story of what happened when the pope tried to change his bank information over the phone after moving to the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Father McCarthy said the pope called his bank in South Chicago about two months after moving overseas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">When he identified himself as Robert Prevost, the bank associate said he had to go in person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;He said&#8230;I&#8217;m not going to be able to do that&#8230; Would it matter to you if I told you I&#8217;m Pope Leo?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">And the bank associate hung up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Could you imagine being known as the woman who hung up on the pope?&#8221; McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The problem was eventually fixed through a friend of the bank&#8217;s president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It shows that even the leader of the Catholic Church sometimes has to ask for a supervisor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><strong class=\"vtkaO \">I-TEAM <\/strong>| <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/banking-spoof-scam-call-incidents-drain-chase-bank-huntington-customers-accounts-fool-abc7-chicago-anchor-rob-elgas\/19039898\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sophisticated banking spoof callers drain local customers&#8217; accounts, nearly fool ABC7 anchor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) &#8212; It turns out even the pope cannot escape customer service hassles, according to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":780326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[319402,960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-780325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-319402","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116535004211015884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}