Special Journey Brief | Leo XIV in Uruguay, Argentina and Peru (November 6–17)

✈️ Departure Friday at 7:00 from Rome Fiumicino; landing in Montevideo at 16:30 local time (20:30 in Rome). Twelve days, thirteen flights and two helicopter legs, Vatican News notes. 🇺🇾 Uruguay (Nov 6–8) | “I proclaim to you a great joy” Welcome in Plaza Independencia, address to authorities, Vespers in the Cathedral. Mass in Paysandú, a visit to Casavalle, a prayer vigil at the Centenario Stadium, Mass in Florida at the shrine of Our Lady of the Thirty-Three. 🇦🇷 Argentina (Nov 8–11) | “Everyone is welcome. Go and proclaim” Casa Rosada and Palacio Libertad; the Cottolengo Don Orione in Claypole; Masses at the Monumento de los Españoles, in Córdoba and in Luján; a youth vigil and a visit to the federal prison. It is Francis’s homeland, where he never returned after 2013. 🇵🇪 Peru (Nov 11–16) | “Let us open our hearts” Lima, then Chiclayo, his former diocese: Mass in Pimentel, the coronation of the Immaculate Virgin, Mass in Santa Cruz de Succhabamba, the close of the Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo Jubilee Year. Then Cusco (Saqsaywaman, Angelus), Pucallpa with the Amazonian peoples, and a farewell Mass at Las Palmas Air Base. 🛬 Back in Rome Tuesday Nov 17 at 10:25. Sources: Holy See Press Office, Vatican News