St. Paul pastor reveals Pope Leo XIV’s connection to Abbott Northwestern Hospital

 Rev. Snider shared the story of his friendship with the Pope with the Pioneer Press. Here is a snippet:

“In the summer of 1980, the man now known as Pope Leo XIV saw the new movie “The Blues Brothers” with a Lutheran friend at Roseville 4, a now-demolished theater on Larpenteur Avenue.

They also ate at the Black Forest Inn in Minneapolis and spent time at Luther Seminary, where friend John Snider lived. The Rev. Snider is now the senior pastor at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church in West St. Paul, and during that summer of 1980, he, Bob Prevost, as the pope was then known, and three others served together in a clinical pastoral education group at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.”

You can read the rest of the story, which was written by Jared Kaufman, here: Robert Prevost - Pope Leo XIV - spent summer of 1980 in Minnesota.