Uruguayan Cardinal Daniel Sturla said that Pope Leo XIV’s first visit to Latin America “will have Argentina, Uruguay and possibly Peru in his itinerary.”
In an interview with Radio Carve de Uruguay On May 21, the question about a possible visit from the Holy Father to that country, the Archbishop of Montevideo said that the probabilities are “very high”, because “he is very clear that Argentina and Uruguay were missing in Francisco’s agenda – not in Francisco’s desire – but in which it was realized.”
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Then, added the Uruguay Argentina, Uruguay and possibly Peru on their itinerary”, Since he was a bishop of Chiclayo and Apostolic Administrator of Callao in the latter.
Pope Leo XIV “seeks the unity of the Church”
“I was very satisfied with the choice of the Pope. It seems to me that it is a figure that seeks the unity of the Church and this today is very important, which will give continuity to the great lines that were novel and positive, let’s say thus, of Francisco, but with a very different style,” said Cardinal Sturla at another time of the interview.
After commenting that he had had contact with him in the Synod of Sinodality and at some meeting of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, the Uruguayan archbishop stressed that Leo XIV “is a man of much listening, of little speak, and that he speaks, say thus, as slowly, thinking a lot what he says, that is, it is a very different character from Francisco’s, and I think he is good at this time.
How did the conclave live and the choice of Pope Leo XIV?
Cardinal Salesian also said that “I had many times thought of my life as a Christian, as a religious and as a priest (…) being in the Plaza de San Pedro when a new Pope is chosen” because “it is a fantastic thing.”
“I had never imagined being on the other side, let’s say, to be inside, so it was a very shocking thing” since “I felt a lot the weight of the responsibility of what I was going to do, because it is a historical fact that knots the life of the Church with what Jesus did with Simon Pedro two thousand years ago, (what is) narrated in the gospels. When the cardinal prevostor says ‘I accept’, at that time it becomes the successor of Peter,” Purpred after its first conclave.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.