A still-recovering pope will head home to Latin America and his beloved Peru for a 12-day trip
The Vatican said he will celebrate nine public Masses and deliver about 36 speeches during the journey.
- On Friday, Pope Leo XIV begins a 12-day, three-nation tour of Latin America, marking his longest trip since undergoing surgery on Oct. 13 to remove a cancerous lung tumor.
- The trip opens in Uruguay, the region's most secular nation, where officials renamed Christmas 'Family Day' and Holy Week 'Tourism Week,' reflecting the country's entrenched church-state separation.
- Returning to Peru, where Leo served as a missionary priest for two decades, the pontiff will visit Cusco at an altitude of 3,400 meters; the Vatican confirmed no special medical provisions are planned.
- Leo's tour includes Argentina, home of predecessor Pope Francis, who never returned during his 13-year pontificate. Carriquiry said Leo intends to "fill a void that has remained" in the polarized nation.
- The grueling schedule spans 31,000 kilometers, including a dozen flights and two helicopter rides, the longest of Leo's pontificate. Despite recent surgery, the Vatican confirmed no special provisions for the 71-year-old pope.
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Just now the Pope has been operated on on his lungs. Now he is embarking on his biggest journey to date: three countries, twelve days, almost forty speeches.
The world (and the Vatican Curia) will look at the gestures of a Pontiff who, after being removed part of a lung, will visit three countries and take 14 flights in 12 days during his tour of Latin America
Less than a month after the operation of 13 October in which the lower lobe of the right lung was removed due to a tumor, Leon XIV is embarking this Friday on a delicate eleven-day trip to Ibero-America. He will visit three countries, Uruguay, Argentina and Peru , where he will alternate a depolarizing political agenda with his presidents Yamandú Orsi, Javier Milei and Keiko Fujimori , along with more emotional moments. In Buenos Aires he will p…
Reduces from the operation to the lung, tomorrow Prevost will leave for the sixth apostolic journey with stops in Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, where he spent 20 years becoming bishop. He will also meet the victims of abuse. The appeal to the faithful: "Accompany me by praying." The article Leo returns missionary in his South America comes from The Truth.
Vatican: Pope Leo 'enthusiastic' and 'clinically fit' for whirlwind Latin America homecoming
Flying to South America a little over three weeks after his surgery for lung cancer, Pope Leo XIV is going "personally enthusiastic about this trip" with "the ordinary medical assistance" in force, Vatican communicators confirmed during a Nov. 3 briefing in the Vatican Press Office.
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