The Catholic Church in Argentina entrusted the Virgin of Luján the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV, initiated this Sunday, May 18, through a video message of its president, Mons. Marcelo Colombo.
“My dear brothers, this Sunday, May 18, the entire Church lives the great event of the beginning of Pope León Pastoral Ministry. With each family, with each community, with each town,” said the archbishop of Mendoza, in the name of all the bishops of Argentina.
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“We are glad in Argentina to testify to this call from God to live a new stage with all the intensity of the first communities,” added the prelate Mendoza.
Mons. Colombo also stressed that Argentine Catholics receive “with enthusiasm, with gratitude to God the Ministry of Pope Leo XIV and we entrust our Mother the Virgin.”
“That she, who in her day saw him be chosen as a shepherd of the whole Church, shelters it with her mantle and for all on behalf of the Argentine Church, send us the blessing of God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen,” concluded the prelate.
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.