Huge crowds gather in Buenos Aires for Pope Leo's outdoor Mass
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- On Sunday, Pope Leo XIV arrived in Buenos Aires and urged Argentine President Javier Milei and other leaders to prioritize people over economics, stating "the economy must serve the person, not the person the economy."
- President Javier Milei's administration implemented sweeping spending cuts to tame inflation and produce a budget surplus, slashing annual inflation from 200% to about 32%. These reforms coincided with falling real wages and roughly 300,000 formal job losses.
- Highlighting human costs, Leo cited retirees struggling on $510 monthly pensions and noted that more than 80% of medical students surveyed had considered emigrating. He stressed that "technological development requires an ethical awareness equal to the task."
- While Milei paid homage to Argentine Pope Francis during the ceremony, he has previously called social justice "a horror." Leo countered that authority "reaches its highest purpose when exercised as a service" to the entire community.
- Marking the first papal visit to Argentina in nearly four decades, Leo's trip navigates a deeply polarized nation where 42 of 44 bishops' policy documents published between January 2024 and September 2026 criticized the administration's approach to poverty and migration.
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Pope Leo celebrates Mass with 2.5 million people in heart of Buenos Aires
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass with 2.5 million people in the heart of Buenos Aires on Nov. 9, drawing the largest crowd of his pontificate so far. “Dear families, I encourage you to take a leading role in evangelization! The Church in Argentina needs you,” the pope said in his homily at the iconic Buenos Aires intersection at the “Monumento de los Españoles.” “This Church is renewed and filled with enthusiasm…
Pope Leo XIV met with five victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in Buenos Aires on the second day of his tour of Argentina, the Vatican said. Leo, the first American head of the Roman Catholic Church, is on a three-nation tour of Latin America that will conclude on November 17. It is not the first time Leo has met with victims of sexual abuse by clergy during a trip abroad, as he aims to help restore the image of the Roman Catholic Church,…
León XIV received five victims of abuse this afternoon. Among them, there was no representation of the 43 exnumeraries who denounced conditions of slavery and abuse in the Work in Argentina. "We want justice. What happened to us is trafficking in persons", these women point out in a video sent this morning to Rome Before going to the meeting with the world of work, which began with more than half an hour of delay, León XIV found five "victims of…
Pope Leo meets victims of abuse by clergy in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, Nov 9 - Pope Leo met with five victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy on Monday in Buenos Aires, the Vatican said, in the first of several expected meetings with survivors during the pontiff's 12-day trip to South America.
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