A review by Amy Welborn of the film Leon de Peru:
What shines through at every stop in this journey through Prevost’s time in Peru, is his foundational understanding of the unity of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy as well as a commitment to collaboration rooted, not in slogans or abstract schema, but in the reality of living and working together as the Body of Christ.
“Leon de Peru” helps us answer the question everyone is asking: Who is Pope Leo? But it does so not simply by listing his human qualities. More importantly, it offers a window into how accompanying and serving God’s people in the midst of joy and suffering prepared him to assume the office of the Successor of Peter.
That was something Leo himself acknowledged in the words he spoke in Spanish on the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica on May 8, when he thanked his “beloved Diocese of Chiclayo … a faithful people has accompanied its Bishop, shared its faith and given so much, so much, to continue being a faithful Church of Jesus Christ.”
