Socorro Cassaro holds up a picture of Augustinian Fr. Robert Prevost with a group of young people at Our Lady of Montserrat Parish in Trujillo, Peru. Prevost, the future Pope Leo XIV, served as parochial administrator of the parish from 1992 to 1999. (NCR photo/Justin McLellan)

Prevost's Peru was a Vatican II laboratory of church renewal

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In 1980s and 1990s Peru, amid post-Vatican II renewal and an Augustinian spirituality of communion, a young Fr. Robert Prevost learned how to construct the participatory church he now champions from Rome.

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The interactive exhibit "The Ancestry of Pope Leo XIV: An American Story" opened to the public Oct. 4 at the American Ancestors building in Boston. (NCR photo/Brian Fraga)

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