Peru: The former head of Cartitas remembers “among people”

Nicolas Nikoliti – Vatican City

Solidarity with the poor, attention to listening, and wonderful cooperation. This is how Guillermo Antonio Cornejo Monzón, the auxiliary bishop in Lima, Monsignor Robert Francis Pervost, Khalifa Pedro today in the name of Pope Liu XIV, who met him in Peru before being called to Rome by Francisco.

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“During the hurricane that destroyed our country in 2023, Monsignor Prevost did not shout, and was next to those who had nothing, home, land to grow, and work. He recalls, “The memory of the bishop who goes to the roads with his shoes to take help to the residents of the northern region of Peru in the eyes of everyone.”

Czechle, 600,000 people north of Peru, on the border with Ecuador, is one of the most populated areas in the nation, and it is a fact like Lima where the poor, youth and entire families move to a better future. With sea views, the arid area, inhabited by small farmers, and victims of natural disasters such as Hurricane Yaku, who is able to influence the Southeast Pacific region and destroy northern Peru in early March 2023.

“People are good, generous, wonderful,” Corno Monzon is recognized, and Primus has seen our loyalty and sincerity when it was here. Prices do not hide problems like violence and corruption, and peace is exposed to danger constantly; Cáritas works refers to this social justice that we are trying to build is not difficult.

The church is near the last

Corno Monzon, President of Cáritas Peru, immediately noticed how intellectual thought threatened the flow of the Cicag River bad harvest.

Today, as the bishop of Lima Assistant, Cornejo Monzón remembers a very period of activity and cooperation with the new ink: “It helped me a lot, with advice and useful guidelines. It was a reference as a law. When I was about to start from Peru, I recommended that I live the synod, the value of social justice, attention to the poor, follow our facts, small and large, and share them with the priests, as much as possible, and also with the values ​​of colleagues and communication. The new Pope remembers as an open person: “He listened to everyone with respect and then gave his opinion.”

It was Francisco who chose Monsignor Corno Monzon in front of Cáritas Peru, which was recently renewed. “It is a wonderful gift that Pope Bergolio presented to me,” he confesses. Cáritas works hard, and the needs are many: poverty, lack of work, and violence. “But, in difficult times, they know how to go ahead, do not inhibit ourselves, and this, while accompanying the new Pope, will be more exciting. What did you feel at the time of choice? It was a great and surprising emotion when he wanted to remember our Dricht in Spanish. In Jubileo de la esperanza, this is another reason for walking together, as he called us to make Leo XIV. ”