When Robert Francis Prevost spoke in Spanish to his crowd of supporters for the first time in St. Peter’s Square last week, Edgewater resident Julio Fernandez said it made him tear up. “I’ve lived in Chicago for many years. And that he is from both places makes me double proud,” Fernandez, 74, a retired doctor from northern Peru, said.

The BriefPope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass in his native language on Friday morning.The new pope is from Chicago. Family, friends and others have talked about his roots.He is not only the first pope from the U.

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