"He, from that time [since he was in Peru], developed this sensitivity toward the poor. This sensitivity to geographic and existential peripheries," says Edinson Farfan, bishop of Chiclayo, in northern Peru, a day after Pope Leo XIV was elected. The American, a member of the Augustinian order, spent two decades in the country. Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost became the 267th pope, spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and successor to Argentina's Pope Francis, after a secret vote by fellow cardinals in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES