David Agren

1 week ago | thebostonpilot.com | David Agren |Nicholas DiMarzio

CHICLAYO, Peru (OSV News) -- Twenty days into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV’s appointment style remains largely unknown -- but his years leading the Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, may offer clues. There, he prioritized lay leadership, promoted synodality and worked across ecclesial factions. César Piscoya arrived in the Diocese of Chiclayo in 2017 at the invitation of the then-Bishop Robert Francis Prevost -- now Pope Leo -- to serve as executive secretary of the social vicariate.

1 week ago | news.diocesetucson.org | David Agren

(OSV News) -- La Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano condenó la masacre de siete jóvenes, incluidos menores de edad, ocurrida durante una festividad parroquial, al tiempo que instó a las autoridades a actuar ante el aumento de la violencia y advirtió a la población que evite la indiferencia ante las atrocidades recurrentes.

1 week ago | news.diocesetucson.org | David Agren

(OSV News) -- The Mexican bishops' conference has condemned a massacre of seven young people -- including minors -- at a parish festival, while urging action on the part of authorities amid rising violence and warning the population to avoid indifference in the face of recurring atrocities.

2 weeks ago | news.diocesetucson.org | David Agren

CHICLAYO, Peru (OSV News) -- Young people in the former Peruvian diocese of Pope Leo XIV used to gather in a parish parking lot behind the bishop's residence, where they would rehearse music and dance, worship and make noise into the night -- all within earshot of then-Bishop Robert F. Prevost. "We knew the priests would be upset" because the gatherings dragged on, recalled Cristina Nombera Bazán, former director of youth ministries in the Diocese of Chiclayo.

2 weeks ago | news.diocesetucson.org | David Agren

ETÉN, Peru (OSV News) -- The election of Pope Leo XIV has renewed hopes in this Indigenous Mochica community on Peru's north coast that an apparent 17th-century miracle involving images of the Divine Child of the Miracle could be recognized by the Vatican. Thousands of pilgrims visit Etén annually to venerate the Divine Child -- which, according to tradition, appeared to worshippers in a consecrated host at a celebration of the Eucharist on the eve of Corpus Cristi in June 1649.