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

Leo’s commitments present a challenge to the nationalism and isolationism currently promoted by the White House.

Pope Leo XIV spent two decades ministering in Peru. He became part of Peruvian society and, eventually, a leader within it.

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.' ...