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What Peru’s Virgen de la Puerta represents about unity and inclusion

  • Written by Caitlin Cipolla-McCulloch, Researcher in Marianist Studies, University of Dayton
What Peru’s Virgen de la Puerta represents about unity and inclusionLa Virgen de la Puerta behind a glass window at the pinnacle of the church.Caitlin Cipolla-McCulloch

Leo XIV, the first pope born in the United States, is also claimed by the Peruvian people whom he served for over two decades as one of their own.

Then known as Robert Francis Prevost, he lived and worked in the cities of Trujillo and Chiclayo in...

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