Overview
- Fidel Alvarado, in interviews published Thursday, described the future pope spending Holy Week for years in remote Piura towns such as Yamango.
- He recounted a year when Robert Prevost made a paschal candle from small candles and a reed so the village could celebrate.
- He portrayed León XIV as a pope of peace who warns that people must not use God to justify war.
- He said a trip by the pope to Peru could come at the end of November, which remains his report rather than an official Vatican plan.
- Alvarado now helps lead the San Isidro and La Matanza parishes that serve about 80 Morropón communities, after a 1990s ministry marked by bomb attacks near their homes.