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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Argentina: Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass before 650,000 in Córdoba
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass before an estimated 650,000 people in Córdoba, Argentina. The pontiff greeted crowds from his popemobile before urging worshippers to open their hearts and embrace their faith.
Pope Leo XIV this Tuesday urged Argentines to follow the example of the country’s best-known saints, bringing together some 650,000 people in the central city of Córdoba for a mass one day after some 2.5 million attended an event in the capital. Faithful from all over Argentina [...]
Argentina is experiencing unprecedented moments of religious mobilization, as Pope Leo gathers hundreds of thousands of faithful as part of his great tour of South America. This time, the focus was on Cordoba, where some 650,000 people flooded the open-air Divine Liturgy, creating an incredible sea of people. Pilgrims from every corner of the country traveled to be near the Pontiff, who is making the first papal visit to Argentina since 1987. …
After the mass in the open sky in Argentina, the Supreme Pontiff urged to take the Gospel to “every corner.” Read his message.
Leo XIV travels to the heart of Francis' homeland to reclaim the country's missionary and charitable saints
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