US EditionItaly sorts vast piles of post for popular Pope Leo
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In a huge hangar of the Italian post office, among dozens of lined yellow boxes, a pile of envelopes piled to the Vatican, a small part of the half-tonne of weekly mail "to the attention of Pope Leo XIV".
From all corners of the world, letters arrive to the Vatican asking for prayers, telling miracles or simply expressing affection to the Supreme Pontiff. In the 21st century, the epistolary tradition is still alive in the name of faith. Read more
Pope Leo receives an average of over 500 kilograms of mail per week.
Between the Augustinian houses and parishes of the capital of the La Libertad region in Peru, where Father Robert Prevost spent 11 years as a missionary in the 1980s and 1990s, he forged a very close bond with his confreres and the faithful. So close, they say, that "his birthday was celebrated 15 times. Everyone wanted to celebrate it." The monks remember the Augustinian friar, the future Pope Leo. The article, "Father Roberto – the "young" par…
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