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People in the city of Chiclayo, where Leo XIV served as bishop for about eight years, gathered to celebrate a man they see as one of their own.
Pope Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago as Robert Prevost, was the first American to be elected Pope - but an expert has warned ...
New pope's deliberate decision to identify with Peru in particular and the Global South generally is no accident ...
The original Pope Leo, known as “Leo the Great,” who served in the fifth century, left an equally powerful legacy. He is ...
He later spent two decades carrying out missionary work in Peru before Pope Francis called him back ... Leo insisted that his identity remained rooted in service. “My vocation, like that of ...
(RNS) — As a Chicago-born missionary to Peru, Robert Francis ... which reported on Leo’s Creole identity. “And of course we don’t know what happened to Pope Leo’s family, but what ...
ROME – The surprising election of the first American pope felt fraught and ... the most fundamental part of Leo’s identity may not be either his American or his Peruvian nationality, argued ...