Tag: Pope Leo XIV

• Saturday, October 31st 2026 - 01:14 UTC

  From Montevideo to Luján: Leo XIV’s tour of Uruguay and Argentina

  

  Pope Leo XIV will begin a tour of South America in Montevideo on November 6 that will take him to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, with open-air Masses, meetings with Presidents Yamandú Orsi and Javier Milei, and events with young people, workers and prisoners. His stop in Argentina, from November 8 to 11, will be the first papal visit to the country since John Paul II’s in April 1987.

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• Friday, October 30th 2026 - 17:17 UTC

  Leo XIV becomes the first pope to vote in a US election

  

  Pope Leo XIV has voted by mail in the US midterm elections to be held on November 3, making him the first pontiff to take part in an election in that country, the Vatican said on Friday.

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• Friday, October 23rd 2026 - 18:19 UTC

  The Pope cancels a visit to Assisi as a medical precaution, two weeks before his South American tour

  

  Pope Leo XIV has cancelled a visit planned for Tuesday, October 27, to Assisi, in central Italy, after his doctors advised against helicopter travel so soon after the lung surgery he underwent on October 13. It is the first engagement on his schedule to be called off since the operation, two weeks before the start of his tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru.

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• Tuesday, October 13th 2026 - 23:00 UTC

  Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer and underwent successful surgery, Vatican says

  

  Pope Leo XIV, 71, has been diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma and underwent successful surgery on Tuesday at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, where doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung, the Holy See said in a medical bulletin. The operation comes three weeks before the start of his tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, whose schedule has not been changed.

• Monday, October 12th 2026 - 08:59 UTC

  Pope Leo XIV to undergo surgery on a lung nodule a month before his tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru

  

  Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery in Rome this week to remove a lung nodule detected at an early stage, less than a month before the start of his first tour of South America, which will take him to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru from November 6 to 17. The Vatican has announced no changes to the trip.

• Friday, August 28th 2026 - 18:56 UTC

  The Pope says states struggle to control the concentration of artificial intelligence

  

  Pope Leo XIV warned on Friday of the difficulty states face in overseeing artificial intelligence, which in his view is concentrated in the hands of a small number of major economic and technological players, and called for the use of such tools to be governed by ethical criteria.

• Thursday, August 6th 2026 - 09:37 UTC

  Uruguay to open Pope Leo XIV's first South American tour

  

  Uruguay will be the first stop on Pope Leo XIV's apostolic journey to South America between November 6 and 17, the director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, confirmed on Wednesday.

• Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 21:22 UTC

  Pope Leo XIV expected to visit Peru in November, including his former diocese of Chiclayo

  

  Pope Leo XIV is expected to visit Peru in November, returning to the country where he was bishop of Chiclayo, carried out much of his pastoral life and obtained citizenship. Interim President José María Balcázar said on Sunday that the trip is “programmed from November 10,” in brief remarks after voting in the presidential runoff.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2026 - 14:21 UTC

  Leo XIV calls for “disarming” artificial intelligence in first encyclical, links it to historical slavery

  

  Pope Leo XIV on Monday published the first major doctrinal document of his pontificate, an encyclical titled Magnifica Humanitas in which he calls for “disarming” artificial intelligence, warns of its risks to humanity, and delivers one of the most complete and firm apologies from the Vatican for the Catholic Church's historical role in slavery. “The word is strong, I know, but it has been chosen deliberately because this moment demands words capable of capturing attention,” the pontiff said during the presentation of the text at the Vatican, as reported by the BBC.

• Thursday, May 21st 2026 - 20:45 UTC

  Pope Leo XIV's possible Uruguay visit remains officially unconfirmed despite local announcements

  

  The possible visit of Pope Leo XIV to Uruguay during the first half of November, announced on Wednesday by the intendant of the department of Florida, Carlos Enciso, does not yet have official confirmation from either the Uruguayan Catholic Church or the Vatican, according to ecclesiastical sources cited by the Montevideo Portal news outlet. The municipal official stated on his X social media account that, according to “Vatican sources” consulted by his administration, the pontiff is expected to visit the national shrine of the Virgin of the Thirty-Three as part of a possible trip to the South American country.