The Vatican launched this Saturday, on the eve of his 70th birthday, the documentary trailer Leo from Chicagoabout the life of Pope Leo XIV in the United States, a country where he was born.
The documentary, carried out by the Editorial Directorate of the Dicasterio for Communication, in collaboration with the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Apostolate the Sow New Evangelization (ESNE), travels through the story, to its roots, of the Pope in the North American country.
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The project, he points out Vatican Newshas been in charge of journalists Deborah Castellano Lubov, Salvatore Cernuzio and Felipe Herrera-Espaliat, shows different places such as the Dolton area in Chicago, where the Pope lived with his family., With the memories and stories of the two brothers of the Holy Father, Louis Martin and John.
There are also offices, schools and parishes led by the Augustinians, the Catholic Union Studies Center, and the places frequented by Robert Prevost, such as the Aurelio’s Pizza restaurant or the Rate Field, the White Sox team stadium.
The tour also includes the University of Villanova near Philadelphia, and Port Charlotte (Florida), where the Pope’s older brother lives.
In the documentary there are about 30 testimonies of people who met Leo XIV in his childhood and youth when, for example, he went to Washington to support the cause of the defense of life.
Leo from Chicago It is the documentary that follows Leon of Perupresented in June, over the Pope’s years in the South American country.
Vatican News indicates that Leo from Chicago It will be available soon in the Vatican channels.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.