The Supreme Pontiff could arrive in the country after visiting Argentina at the end of this year or at the beginning of 2025.
He Pope Francisco He referred again to his visit to the Argentinawhich is directly linked to your possible visit to the Uruguayensuring that he could visit the sister country at “the end of November” or at the beginning of next year.
Last Thursday, the Supreme Pontiff confirmed his intentions to a group of Argentine faithful who traveled to Rome and the Vatican on the occasion of the First World Children’s Day.
“I would like to go at the end of November or the beginning of next year,” he said. Francisco after being consulted by those present, among whom was the Argentine priest Ivan Dornellesabout when he would visit his country of origin, as reported by the Argentine Catholic Information Agency (AICA).
He Archbishop of Montevideo and Cardinal Prelate Daniel Sturla noted in March that after a meeting with Francisco During the month of February, the bishop of Rome confirmed that if he went to Argentinait will also do Uruguayand it was expected to be during the second half of this year.
“If I go to Argentina, I go to Uruguay”
“I was with him in February, and what he told me was: if I’m going to Argentinago Uruguay“, the archbishop of Montevideo then reported, but clarified: “it depends on the Pope’s health and the Argentine situation.”
“The Pope does not usually come to countries that have an electoral issue, an electoral process, so I think that one possibility would be for him to come right after the second round,” Sturla remarked in reference to the almost certain runoff in November.
The visit of Francisco would be the first of the highest authority of the Catholic Church to the country since the second trip to Uruguay of John Paul II in 1988, when he was in Montevideo, Melo (Cerro Largo), Florida and Leapbefore leaving for Bolivia. In 1987 she had only been to Montevideo.
Source: Ambito
