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diocese of chiclayo
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Pope Leo XIV
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A Pillar Dispatch

The guy in the pope’s jacket

‘It was a special grace for us’

JD Flynn
Aug 04, 2025
∙ Paid

It’s a long trip from Chicago to Chiclayo.

There’s a direct flight from O’Hare to Lima, which after eight hours in the air, lands late at night in the Peruvian capital. Your flight to Chiclayo would be the next day, just two hours in the air, enough to see you land in the northern Peruvian city almost 24 hours after take off in Chicago.

From the airport t…

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