{"id":134,"date":"2026-01-04T12:14:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/?p=134"},"modified":"2026-01-04T12:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:14:46","slug":"pope-leo-goes-viral-after-being-gifted-favorite-candy-on-earth-while-riding-popemobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo goes viral after being gifted \u2018favorite candy on earth\u2019 while riding Popemobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope loves his peeps.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV\u00a0was riding through St. Peter\u2019s Square gracing gatherers with his presence, when he got an unexpected present \u2014 a giant Peep doll \u2014 and the sweet clip went viral.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Diaz and her three siblings saw an\u00a0interview with Leo\u2019s brother, John Prevost,\u00a0where he revealed the marshmallow-chick Easter candies are His Holiness\u2019 \u201cfavorite candy on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DSn1Yb9ArjM\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=618&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com&amp;rp=%2F2026%2F01%2F03%2Fworld-news%2Fpope-leo-goes-viral-after-hes-gifted-favorite-candy-on-earth-while-riding-popemobile%2F%3Fsr_share%3Dfacebook%26utm_social_handle_id%3D134486075205%26utm_source%3Dfacebook%26utm_social_post_id%3D#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A4055.89999999851%7D\" height=\"1210\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>So when the family visited Italy \u2014 where their sister was about to get engaged \u2014 a few weeks ago, they decided to bring the pontiff a knitted peep and pray for the opportunity to give it to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was not sure how we were going to pull this off . . . I was so nervous, but knew Heaven was on our side,\u201d Diaz said in the Instagram clip, which got over 730,000 views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought about giving him a marshmallow Peep, but then my sister was like, \u2018I want him to have something more intentional that he can keep with him all the time,&#8217;\u201d Diaz told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia family asked a friend\u2019s daughter to crochet a woolen peep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe put a little miter on his head, so we kept calling him, \u2018The Pope Peep,&#8217;\u201d she said, laughing. \u201cIt traveled all of Europe with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the group arrived in Italy, they made sure to get up at 4:30 a.m. the next morning in order to be in the front row in Vatican City.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo appeared on his Popemobile at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, just the emotion of seeing him. Especially as an American pope, that was super emotional for us because he speaks English and perfect English, so you can relate to him even more in that way,\u201d Diaz recalled.<\/p>\n<p>As Pope Leo made his way through the rows, the family started to get nervous that he wouldn\u2019t even notice them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo finally, we just started frantically yelling, \u2018Pope Leo, we got you a Peep!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he turned around! And he said, \u2018A giant Peep! You made it?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Info: https:\/\/nypost.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope loves his peeps. Pope Leo XIV\u00a0was riding through St. Peter\u2019s Square gracing gatherers with his presence, when he got an unexpected present \u2014 a giant Peep doll \u2014 and the sweet clip went viral. Ashley Diaz and her three siblings saw an\u00a0interview with Leo\u2019s brother, John Prevost,\u00a0where he revealed the marshmallow-chick Easter candies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}