“I ask forgiveness,” the pope said on his flight from Lima to Rome. “It’s a hurt [caused] without wishing it.”

Jesus “is here in Lima, or wherever you are living, in the routine of your daily life and work.”

People and cheered Pope Francis everywhere he went on this last day of his visit.

“Just as the apostles faced the storm on the sea, you had to face the brunt of ‘El Niño costero.’”

“The degradation of the environment...cannot be separated from the moral degradation of our communities.”

Francis is the first pope to come to the Amazon region, and he insisted that his first event and major speech of his visit to Peru should be to this place.