Huge crowds gather in Buenos Aires for Pope Leo's outdoor Mass
The pope urged Argentina to put the weakest first as the Vatican said the Mass drew 2.5 million people, his biggest liturgical turnout.
- 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 XIV celebrated this Monday in Buenos Aires a mass in the Monument of the Spaniards, with a figure close to 2.5 million people. The faithful moved to the neighborhood of Palermo to listen to the speech of the pontiff. This is the largest religious call since he began his mandate. ... Continue reading "Pope Leo XIV makes history: gathers almost 2.5 million faithful during his visit to Buenos Aires"
Pope Leo Draws 2.5 Million in First Mass in Argentina
An estimated 2.5 million people gathered in Buenos Aires on Monday for Pope Leo XIV’s first mass in Argentina, the largest crowd of his papacy. The pontiff will head to Peru next for the third leg of his 12-day trip to South America.
In Argentina, Leo XIV is frenetically welcomed by two million people. Even President Javier Milei is conciliatory – he would have every reason to be offended.
A human tide in the central streets of Buenos Aires for the Pope's Mass: two and a half million people, which today represents the record of participation for the...
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.
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