By Walter Sánchez Silva
November 10, 202506:03 p. m.
Nov. 10, 202506:03 p. m.
The Vatican premiered the documentary this November 10 Leo from Chicagoabout the life of Leo XIV in the United States, the country where he was born, 6 months after the pontificate of the first American and Peruvian Pope in the history of the Catholic Church.
The documentary premiered at 4:00 p.m. (Rome time) with a screening at the Vatican Film Archive for journalists accredited in the Press Room of the Holy See; already at 18:00 was published on the Vatican News YouTube channels in English, Italian and Spanishaccording to a note from the Dicastery for Communication.
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The documentary has been made by the Editorial Directorate of the Dicastery for Communication, in collaboration with the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Apostolate El Sombrador Nueva Evangelización (ESNE).
The project was carried out by journalists Deborah Castellano Lubov, Salvatore Cernuzio and Felipe Herrera-Espaliat, with editing by Jaime Vizcaíno Haro, and shows different places such as the town of Dolton in Chicago, where the Pope lived with his family, with the memories and stories of the Holy Father's brothers, Louis Martin and John.
You can also see the offices, schools and parishes run by the Augustinians, the Catholic Theological Union study center, and the places frequented by Robert Prevost, such as Aurelio's Pizza restaurant or Rate Field, the stadium of the White Sox baseball team.
The tour also includes Villanova University near Philadelphia, and Port Charlotte, Florida, where the Pope's older brother lives.
In the documentary there are about 30 testimonies from people who knew Leo XIV in his childhood and youth when, for example, he went to march in Washington to support the cause of the defense of life.
Leo from Chicago is the documentary that follows Lion of Perupresented in June, about the Pope's years in the country South American.
This note was originally published on Saturday, November 8, announcing the premiere of the documentary. It has been updated for republication.
Walter Sánchez Silva I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.
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