Arevalo-Garazatua looks back on the five years she knew the man who would become Pope Leo XIV as a gift. “We loved him so much,” she said. “Father Roberto did ...

The election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the new Pope came as a welcome surprise to the Afro-Peruvian community.

Cardinal Robert Prevost's leadership roles in Chicago and Rome were essential in his formation. But his time in Peru best ...

Though Leo XIV is from Chicago, his election to the papacy reflects the move of Christianity toward the Global South.

While he was born in Chicago, his pastoral identity was shaped in the highlands of Peru, not the pews of Illinois.' ...

Pope Leo XIV’s American and Peruvian experience offers a compelling moral and economic lens through which to examine the ...

The U.S.-born pontiff served in Peru for decades, and Arizonans from the South American country think he was shaped for the ...

New pope's deliberate decision to identify with Peru in particular and the Global South generally is no accident ...

Japanese Cardinal Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo says Pope Leo XIV’s previous work as a missionary and as a Vatican official were ...

Catholics around the world were skeptical at first about an American pope. But Pope Leo XIV’s multicultural and multilingual ...

In the end, the most fundamental part of Leo’s identity may not be either his American or his Peruvian nationality, argued ...