In this week’s episode of “Inside the Vatican,” Austen Ivereigh and Hugo Hernan Rabbia join Colleen Dulle to discuss Pope Leo’s visits to Uruguay and Argentina. In the first part of the show, Austen discusses Leo’s messages in the two countries; in the second, Hugo unpacks the findings from his national survey of Argentines’ religious practices and expectations for the pope’s visit.
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Chapters:
1:14 Mass with 2.5 million people
2:30 Pope in Uruguay: religion & secularism
8:30 Pope Leo’s message to families
10:43 Leo’s welcome to Argentina
14:32 The legacy of Pope Francis
19:19 Leo meets people with disabilities
22:08 Leo meets with workers
26:20 The church needs reach out
29:39 What happened in Córdoba
32:55 Prayer is booming in Argentina
39:12 Argentinians wanted to see Leo
41:36 Politics and religion in Argentina
Links:
- National Survey on Lived Religion (Spanish PDF)
- Peru’s Cardinal Barreto: Pope Francis was a bulldozer. Now Leo paves that road for all believers.
- ‘I am returning to my homeland’: Pope Leo’s emotional Peruvian homecoming begins
- Tech industry workers gather to read Pope Leo’s A.I. encyclical
- Pope Leo celebrates Mass for more than two million at Argentine shrine of Our Lady of Luján
- Pope Leo lifts up Argentina’s many saints at Mass in Córdoba
- Pope Leo: ‘Do not give in to those who dismiss the Christian family as outdated.’
- Cardinal Rossi hopes Pope Leo will bring light to a ‘dimming’ faith in Argentina
- Pope Leo meets with President Milei, urges dialogue, on his first day in Argentina
- Pope Leo XIV travels to Argentina, the homeland of Pope Francis
- Pope Leo calls for ‘creative courage’ in the evangelization of secular Uruguay
- Pope Leo calls for universal health care ‘in every society’ in first address in Uruguay
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