From tortillas and skateboards to tattoos on drug lords, the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is omnipresent in Mexico, and let’s face it: Despite the pontiff’s love for the poor and the peripheries, it’s the Virgin of Guadalupe who truly brought Pope Francis to Aztec soil.
“How could I not come?” Francis asked the Mexican bishops Saturday. “Could the Successor of Peter, called from the far south of Latin America, deprive himself of seeing la Virgen Morenita?” (“The brown-skinned Virgin”).
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