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Peru, Pope Leo XIV

Reuters on MSN · 7h

As a young priest in Peru, Pope Leo XIV survived a bomb threat and charmed locals

Hector Camacho remembers Robert Prevost, set to be formally inaugurated as Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, as a young jeans-wearing missionary from Chicago with broken Spanish, landing in Peru at a time when the country was being torn apart by internal conflict.

Associated Press News on MSN · 5d

Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, known as the ‘saint of the north’ in Peru for his closeness to poor

Prevost was brought to the Vatican in 2023 by Pope Francis as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations.

America Magazine · 22h

A missionary pope: What Pope Leo XIV’s years in Peru tell us about how he’ll lead the church

Father Robert Prevost first arrived in Peru in 1985 during a time of crisis, the aftermath of devastating El Niño rains that had left thousands of people homeless.

What to know about Robert Prevost, the first pope born in the U.S. and his ties to Peru

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost has been chosen by the conclave to be the next pope. He will be known as Pope Leo ...

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Cardinal Robert Prevost becomes first American-born pope

Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed ...

National Catholic Reporter2h

Peru's Augustinian friars remember 'Monsignor Roberto' as defender of 'those who have nothing'

Peruvians have expressed pride and surprise in one of their own becoming pontiff. Augustinians in the country have expressed ...

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Peruvians react to Cardinal Robert Prevost’s election as Leo XIV

The bells of the cathedral in Peru’s capital, Lima, rang after Prevost was elected pope. Robert Prevost, an missionary who ...

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As missionary in Peru, future pope always close to the poorest, say Augustinian sisters

Augustinian Sister Marlene Quispe of the Monastery of the Incarnation in Lima, Peru, said that as their religious brother, ...

National Catholic Reporter1d

Faithful of Peru diocese celebrate papal election of man they regard as one of their own

Thousands of Catholics packed the plaza outside the Cathedral of Santa Maria de Chiclayo in this northern Peruvian city to ...

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White smoke at Vatican, phones blowing up in Chicago: Their old classmate Robert is pope

Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.

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