Pope Leo XIV’s father landed at Normandy on D-Day. The war in Europe ended on May 8, 1945 — and exactly eighty years later, to the day, his son was elected pope.

Louis Prevost was a Navy officer who came home to spend his career as a Chicago-area schoolteacher and administrator.

When his youngest son, Robert, wavered in seminary and thought of leaving to marry and raise a family, it was his father’s quiet counsel that kept him on the path to the priesthood.

For Father’s Day, the largely untold story of the man who helped make Pope Leo XIV.