Pope Urges Argentines to Follow Model of Saints During Mass in the ‘Land of Saints’
- 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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Leo XIV draws some 650,000 to Córdoba with a homily on holiness
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass on Tuesday in Córdoba, in central Argentina, before some 650,000 people, according to the newspaper El País, in a homily devoted to holiness and local saints. “There is no better way to teach than by setting an example with one’s own life,” he told the faithful, urging them to practise their faith concretely in daily life.
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