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“It is urgent that there take root throughout the church a culture of prevention that does not tolerate any form of abuse,” Pope Leo XIV said.

CHICAGO (OSV News) — A decision in 2000 to move a priest accused of abusing boys into residence at an Augustinian friary in Chicago originated from leadership of the Archdiocese of …

Before he was Pope Leo XIV, then-Bishop Robert F. Prevost of Chiclayo, Peru, created a commission to help women escape forced prostitution, said a trafficking survivor who worked with him.

Peruvian Catholics in different U.S. cities shared what it meant to them seeing Pope Leo XIV, “Papa León,” step out on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica.

“Right from the start,” then-Father Prevost was “a simple man,” said Father Jorge Majail. “As we say in Peru, ‘He doesn’t complicate life,'” or doesn’t sweat the small stuff.

In Chiclayo, Peru, where he was bishop 2015-2023, Pope Leo XIV is fondly remembered for prioritizing the poor, bringing the church closer to the people and embracing his adopted country.

As a missionary priest in Peru, and later bishop, the future Pope Leo XIV’s enthusiasm “impressed me,” said Augustinian Sister Carmen Toledano. “He had that desire of being close to …

Between 2015 and 2023, then-Bishop Robert F. Prevost shepherded the Diocese of Chiclayo through some of its most difficult times.

Looking at the challenges that the church in the United States is facing, “I hope to be able to respond to them with healthy dialogue,” said Pope Leo XIV.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has ordered the suppression of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a Peru-based lay movement active across Latin America and the United States, and three related …