Leo XIV: From Peru with love
09 May 2025, 12:15 The Pope is Peruvian, and since Peru is a country so deprived of joys, don’t ask us to make the bitter distinctions typical of the meticulous biographer who uses that bleak and dreadful phrase that’s been repeated hundreds of times today: “naturalized Peruvian.” He has a Peruvian ID that doesn’t expire, as noted in the copies of his document that have gone viral — just as his Peruvian identity will never expire. A Peruvian is born wherever they please, as Doris Gibson rightly said of people from Arequipa.
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