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Pontífice descendiendo de un avión en un aeropuerto de Buenos Aires al atardecer ante fieles con banderas argentinas
Llegada de un pontífice a Buenos Aires ante fieles con banderas argentinas, en una imagen alusiva a la visita de cuatro días a Argentina. · Imagen generada por EPM

Leo XIV arrives in Argentina after 39 years without a papal visit

Leo XIV arrives this Sunday at 16:30 at Jorge Newbery Airport and opens a four-day visit across Buenos Aires, Claypole, Cordoba and Lujan, with a meeting with…

--- The context --- Argentina receives a pope after 39 years without papal visits, since John Paul II in April 1987. Leo XIV arrives on his South American tour for a four-day stay across Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Luján. --- The facts --- The pontiff will arrive this Sunday, November 8, at 16:30, on a flight from Montevideo, at Jorge Newbery Airport. At approximately 17, he will pay tribute at the Monument to General San Martín in Plaza San Martín, he will go to the Casa Rosada to meet President Javier Milei, and at 18:30 he will lead at Palacio Libertad his first official speech in the country. On Monday, a national holiday decreed by the Government, he will begin at 9:15 at the Pequeño Cottolengo Don Orione in Claypole, with residents, workers and Abel Pintos alongside the local choir, and will continue at 11:30 with a massive Mass at the Monumento de los Españoles. At 16:10 he will continue at the Catholic University of Argentina with union leaders, businesspeople and social movements, at 17:30 with religious leaders at Palacio San Martín, and at 18:45 with vespers at the Metropolitan Cathedral. On Tuesday, a holiday in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and in Córdoba, he will take off at 7:30, land at 9:00 at Ambrosio Taravella Airport and celebrate Mass at 10:00 at the Argentine Aircraft Factory. At 15:15 he will meet priests, seminarians and pastoral agents at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, and at 20:15 he will preside in Buenos Aires over a vigil with young people. On Wednesday, with a provincial holiday in Buenos Aires, he will privately visit at 8:00 the Villa Devoto Federal Penitentiary Complex and at 10:00 he will celebrate the closing Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján, with Luciano Pereyra as the main artist. The farewell will be at 13:30 at Ezeiza, and the plane will depart at 14:00 toward Lima. --- The positions --- There will be four open and free activities in Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Luján, with no mandatory prior registration and a voluntary registration to gauge attendance. Institutional events will be private, for accredited guests only, and the meeting with the clergy in Córdoba requires mandatory prior registration. --- What remains unknown --- The agenda does not detail the content of the first speech or the topics of the meeting at the Casa Rosada, nor how many worshippers are expected at each Mass. --- Unanswered questions --- What will Leo XIV say in his first official speech? What will he discuss with President Javier Milei at the Casa Rosada? How many worshippers will the open Masses gather? What will follow on the tour after Lima? --- EPM analysis --- The agenda combines the institutional weight of the presidential meeting with gestures toward Claypole, a prison, young people and workers, so that the visit is not reduced to a state ceremony. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the visit is ordered around a balance between institution and closeness: it honors historical memory, speaks with political power and reserves its most visible hours for worshippers, young people, workers and detained people. If participation meets the expectation of 39 years of waiting, the four days will leave a presence measurable in concrete communities of Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Luján, before continuing onward toward Lima and the rest of the South American tour.
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