Pope Leo XIV arrived in Uruguay on the afternoon of Nov. 6, telling journalists aboard his 13-hour transatlantic flight from Rome that he was “convinced that this trip had to go forward” following lung cancer surgery a little more than three weeks earlier.
Pope Leo XIV departed Rome for Uruguay on the morning of Nov. 6 at the start of a 12-day trip to South America, the longest international journey of his pontificate, a little over three weeks after undergoing surgery for lung cancer.
Zaña is the third and last shrine on Pope Leo’s first apostolic journey to Latin America, after the national Marian shrines of Uruguay and Argentina.
Flying to South America a little over three weeks after surgery for lung cancer, Pope Leo XIV is ready for this trip, the Vatican confirmed.
When Pope Leo XIV visits Latin America, his journey will bring him before a small Marian image that Uruguay’s determined secularization could never entirely separate from the country’s national identity.
The final leg of Pope Leo’s three-country tour in Latin America will take the American-born pontiff to his adopted homeland, and his arrival not as a local bishop but as Supreme Pontiff
The Vatican confirmed that Pope Leo XIV will meet with survivors of clergy sexual abuse in Latin America.
Pope Leo XIV will make the first apostolic journey to South America of his pontificate Nov. 6-17, visiting 10 cities in Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, the Vatican has announced.
Pope Leo XIV turns 70 on Sept. 14 and some of his closest friends in the Chicago-area will mark the day with him in mind, quietly.
A tourist itinerary connecting dozens of landmarks associated with Pope Leo XIV’s decades-long mission in Peru was launched in July by the South American country’s government
