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Prevost’s Parish Ministry: The Chicagoland church that helped form Pope Leo XIV

Catholic Intelligence1 min read

St. Victor Church in Calumet City was a working-class Polish parish when Father Robert Prevost arrived there in 1978.

A religious sister recalled that the future pope had a way of mediating between different sides to build bridges.

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