Huge crowds gather in Buenos Aires for Pope Leo's outdoor Mass
Buenos Aires officials said about 2.5 million worshippers attended, as Leo used the Mass to call for support for the poor and vulnerable.
- 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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Some 2.5 million people attend Leo XIV’s Mass in Buenos Aires, authorities say
Some 2.5 million people, according to local authorities, attended the Mass Pope Leo XIV celebrated on Monday in the parks of Palermo in Buenos Aires, the first by a pontiff in Argentina since John Paul II’s visit in 1987, with a homily focused on the role of the family. El País described it as the largest gathering of his pontificate.
During this Mass in Buenos Aires, the crowd is the largest in eighteen months of pontificate of the American pope.
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BUENOS AIRES: Pope Leo XIV led a vast mass in Argentina on Monday (Nov 9) with two and a half million pilgrims, and urged protection of society's most vulnerable as he met disabled people and clerical abuse victims.The Buenos Aires mass drew the largest crowd of Leo's papacy to date, as faithful travelled fro
BUENOS AIRES (AP) — On his second day in Argentina, the pope visited Little Cottolengo Don Orione, a disability assistance center where he had a meeting with his staff and those who are there.
The Pope celebrated his greatest mass in Argentina with millions of faithful, and President Javier Milei also attended it. For the right-wing populist, the Pontiff found words advocating during his visit.
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