Peruvian-Americans in Diocese ‘Elated’ With Election of New Pope

Peruvian-Americans in Diocese ‘Elated’ With Election of New Pope

Mina Newman (left) and Carmen Bissell look at a painting in St. Sebastian Church that recreates the “Lord of Miracles,” a 17th-century image of Christ on the Cross painted in Lima, Peru. The sisters, whose late mother Bertha Limo Newman spearheaded a traditional Peruvian procession in Woodside, Queens, in tribute to the Lord of the Miracles, said their mom would have been proud that Pope Leo XIV, who served in Peru, was chosen. (Photo: Paula Kat…

Peruvians in Chicago are celebrating the election of Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native who spent two decades serving in Peru, as the elevation of one of their own. “We have a Peruvian-American pope,” said Betty Lázaro, 62, who began to cry upon hearing the news. “I couldn’t believe it.” Robert Francis Prevost, 69, was born in Chicago and grew up in the southern suburb of Dolton, attending a Catholic school on the city’s South Side. La Voz Chicago W…