Huge crowds gather in Buenos Aires for Pope Leo's outdoor Mass
Leo said a nation’s progress should be judged by how it treats people with disabilities as funding cuts strain care services.
- On Monday, Pope Leo XIV arrived in Buenos Aires for a massive outdoor Mass at the Monumento a los Españoles, which city officials expected to draw more than 1.5 million faithful.
- Earlier, the pontiff visited the Cottolengo Don Orione center in Claypole, a facility for over 400 people with disabilities that serves as a focal point for protests against President Javier Milei's austerity measures.
- Leo said in the center's chapel, "A nation's progress is also measured by how it welcomes all people with disabilities," urging Argentina to replace the "pursuit of economic success" with "great works of charity."
- The visit occurs as Argentina's Senate prepares to vote on disability funding legislation that President Javier Milei opposes, citing concerns that increased spending would undermine his administration's fiscal balance.
- This visit marks the first papal trip to majority-Catholic Argentina since 1987, serving as the second stop on Leo's 12-day South American tour that concludes in Peru on November 17, 2026.
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Two million people were gathered on Monday in Buenos Aires to attend a mass in the open air of Pope Leo XIV, on the second day of his visit to Argentina, we learned from the authorities of the capital. ...
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Addressing residents of a home for people with disabilities near Buenos Aires, Leo said disabled people were 'not a burden on society' but 'a blessing'.
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Pope visits care home in Argentina for people with disabilities to press economic message
ANSA - from Buenos Aires, Manuela Tulli. The Pope against the pushed liberalism of Milei and the new America, 'It is not progress'. (ANSA)
In a visit to Argentina, Pope Leo XIV said, on Monday, that a country is measured by the inclusion of people with disabilities. The Pontiff spoke during a visit to Cottolengo Don Orioneu, an institution in the southern part of Buenos Aires that serves 410 adults with disabilities, and in the midst of a debate about state assistance to this segment of the population in the country governed by ultra-rightist Javier Milei.
The high pontiff expressed his desire that Argentina be able to do great works of charity, and urged to "get out of individualism" to create a world where "it feels loved and wants to love others".
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