Char Burnette picked up a call from the Kitsap Sun Friday morning and got right to it: “It’s absolutely true.”
The question she anticipated was one friends and relatives, and even a BBC reporter , had been asking since Thursday morning, when white smoke above Rome’s Sistene Chapel preceeded the announcement that Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, will lead the Roman Catholic Church.
Yes, Prevost is the same one Burnette, a longtime Bremerton resident who grew up on the south side of Chicago, met as a first-grade student at St. Mary’s of the Assumption School…