Many people who worked with Pope Leo XIV when he was Bishop Robert Prevost of Chiclayo, Peru, couldn’t hold their tears when his election was announced.
For them, it was not just a sign that God answered their prayers for a new pope who would follow Francis’s path, but also the confirmation that they had been guided by an extraordinary leader.
“Since the moment he arrived, we noticed that he was a person touched by the Lord,” Father Carlos Samame told Crux.
Rita Paredes, a lay member of the diocesan team of pastoral animation, said that Prevost “has a spirituality that emerges from his skin, as if he was surrounded by the Holy Spirit.”
