Cardinal Uruguayan Daniel Sturla transmitted to Papa Leo XIV A “first invitation” to go to that place, which, like Argentina, didn’t obtain an official go to from its predecessor, Pope Francis.
This was supplied at a digital press convention, through which he mentioned that after being elected and altered his garments within the so -called Sala tears, the Supreme Pontifon returned to the Sistine hat, the place every cardinal had the chance to greet him.
After this second, and after leaving the balcony, he died with all these taking a look at Santa Marta’s home.
“Within the first greeting I already instructed him ‘Look we’re ready for him to go to in Uruguays’ After which at dinner I used to be on the identical desk because the Argentine Cardinal (Mario) Poli. And Pole mentioned ‘Keep in mind that Argentina didn’t have the Pope’s (Francisco) go to’ And he instantly mentioned ‘Sure, Argentina and Uruguay’ And he checked out me, so I mentioned ‘Sure, we count on it,’ he mentioned.
In that line, Sturla mentioned he believes that American nationalized Peruana “You’ll think about” go to Argentina and Uruguay “Possibly together with Peru, his homeland of adoption,” throughout an eventual journey to South America, a area through which – regardless of being born and raised in the USA – he spent a few years.
“There was an important presence, a robust data of the Latin America’s actuality with totally different channels and that I feel he approaches us. He speaks Spanish like every of us, with a small emphasis, and in addition acquired Peruvian citizenship. That’s, he’s American and Peruvian on the identical time,” he mentioned.
The final pope to go to Uruguay was Polish John Paul II, who traveled to the South American nation in 1987 within the context of his eighth apostolic journey to Latin America – which additionally included Argentina and Chile – after which headed the Mass with the best assist in Uruguayan historical past.
John Paul II is the one Pope that Argentina visited, and did it twice. The primary in 1982, in the course of the Malvinas conflict, and the opposite in 1987, when it was on the opposite coast of Río de la Pata.