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Speaking from the balcony of the Apostolic Nunciature in Montevideo, Pope Leo XIV thanks Uruguayans for their welcome on the first day of his Apostolic Journey and greets the young people gathered to greet him.
As he meets with Uruguay's Bishops, clergy, and religious, Pope Leo XIV urges Catholics in dioceses around the world to pray and fast for vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
During his Apostolic Journey to Uruguay, Pope Leo XIV recalls the Saints and Blesseds who helped shape the country’s spiritual heritage, as their holiness was lived in tireless service to those most in need.
At Vespers in Montevideo, Pope Leo XIV invites Uruguay's Bishops, clergy, and religious to return constantly to Jesus Christ, launching an appeal for the universal Church to pray and fast for vocations.
The pastoral challenges of accompanying those in polygamous situations and the wider question of inculturation in the African Church were at the centre of a gathering of theologians representing the six episcopal conferences that make up the Inter-Regional Meeting of the Bishops of Southern Africa (IMBISA): Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe (CEAST), Lesotho (LCBC), Mozambique (CEM), Namibia (NCBC), South Africa, Botswana, and Eswatini (SACBC), and Zimbabwe (ZCBC).
Pope Leo XIV begins his Apostolic Journey to South America with a discourse on the common good, reflecting on democracy, our duties toward future generations, care for human dignity and for those most in need, and peaceful coexistence.
Pope Leo XIV lands in Montevideo, Uruguay, as he begins his 12-day Apostolic Journey to Latin America, marking his sixth international journey since the start of the papacy.
During his flight from Rome to Montevideo, Pope Leo XIV sends greetings to the leaders and peoples of Italy, France, Algeria, Mauritania, Senegal, and Brazil as the papal plane flies over their territories.
Aboard the flight to Uruguay, Pope Leo XIV expresses his happiness at making the visit, introduces the new Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, Montserrat Alvarado, and says he is “proud to be American and to exercise the right to vote.”
A court in Malta orders four companies to pay the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) €24.1 million plus interest for breaching their fiduciary duties in the Kappa Fund case, rejecting their claims against the Institute in a first-instance judgment.
Pope Leo concludes his first day in Uruguay with vespers in Montevideo's Metropolitan Cathedral. Before that he addresses the country's civil authorities following a welcome ceremony at Montevideo's Carrasco airport.
Ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Casavalle, a local priest and a social ministry worker describe how the Church helps families build homes and gives teenagers and adults a chance to finish school.