Pope Urges Argentines to Follow Model of Saints During Mass in the ‘Land of Saints’
The pope cited Argentina’s saints and blesseds as he drew an estimated 650,000 people to Mass and called holiness a shared mission.
- On Tuesday, Pope Leo XIV presided over Mass at the Military Aviation School in Cordoba, Argentina, drawing 650,000 attendees, a day after 2.5 million gathered in Buenos Aires on Monday.
- The liturgical site, grounds of the former Argentine Aircraft Factory, recalls the 1976-1983 military dictatorship when human rights groups estimate around 30,000 people were killed or disappeared.
- Alba Camargo, 64, detained during the dictatorship, is among 20 marginalized residents set to meet Leo after Tuesday's Mass, hoping the meeting "would bring change" in her search for disappeared relatives.
- Cordoba Archbishop Cardinal Rossi, a vocal critic of President Javier Milei, has railed against government funding cuts for dictatorship memorial sites, calling them "state and institutional sadism."
- On Wednesday, Leo will visit The Devoto Prison in Buenos Aires, a former clandestine detention center designated as a Memory Site, to pray with inmates before concluding his Argentina visit.
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POPE Leo XIV gathered 650,000 faithful in Cordoba and criticized austerity policies and called for the protection of the poorest during a visit to Argentina.
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"The poor are in need of God." About a million Argentines listened to Leon XIV in the province of Córdoba, about 600 kilometers north of the city of Buenos Aires. The Mass celebrated in the esplanade of the Military Aviation School showed once again the capacity of mobilization of the pontiff in a country where less than 60% of its inhabitants are considered Catholic. Decades ago, they exceeded 90% of the population. The Pope's journey finds par…
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