Pope Urges Argentines to Follow Model of Saints During Mass in the ‘Land of Saints’
He called on leaders to protect democracy and ensure the economy serves the poor, while 650,000 people attended the Mass, the Vatican said.
- 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.
The Pontiff leads the second mass mass in its passage through Argentine territory
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Buenos Aires, 10 Nov (EFE).- Hundreds of thousands of people from different parts of Argentina and neighboring countries are waiting on Tuesday for Pope Leon XIV in the province of Córdoba, where the pontiff will celebrate a mass of mass after a night of vigil, music and prayer in the premises of the Argentine Factory of [...] La entrada Hundreds of thousands of people are waiting for Pope Leon XIV in the Argentine province of Córdoba was first …
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