Milei Plans to Travel to the Vatican in June and Have His First Audience with Pope Leo XIV

In addition, the President will take the opportunity to continue his tour of Israel and to complete the visit he had scheduled for last March, which was suspended, among other reasons, because of the escalation of the conflict in the Gaza Strip.

The government is working on a possible trip by President Javier Milei to the Vatican next June with the aim of maintaining an audience with the brand-new Pope Leo XIV and the tour would continue in Israel, a country he was going to visit last March although in the end he had to cancel his landing. As soon as the libertarian leader went down to Rome for the inauguration ceremony of Robert Prevost as Francisco's successor, because it coincided wi…

President Javier Milei evaluates traveling to the Vatican during June to hold a first hearing with Leon XIV, as part of an international tour that would also include a stopover in Israel. The president planned to attend the inauguration ceremony of the new Pope this Sunday, but the date coincided with the legislative elections in Buenos Aires, where his spokesman Manuel Adorni heads the list of candidates for La Libertad Avanza. According to Arg…

Cardinal Daniel Sturla held a private audience with Pope Leo XIV on Friday, in which they talked about the situation of Uruguay and the Church in the country. “He gave me his blessing for our people and his Church,” the Archbishop of Montevideo shared in his X account, accompanying the message with a photograph with the pontiff. Sturla had already had a first contact with Leon XIV minutes after the conclave that consecrated him as a new pope. On…