{"id":88146,"date":"2026-11-06T08:39:38","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88146"},"modified":"2026-11-06T08:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:39:38","slug":"the-popes-return-to-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/the-popes-return-to-south-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope&#8217;s Return To South America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/pope-leo-xiv\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Pope Leo XIV<\/a><\/span> is returning home to the continent where he spent two decades as a missionary priest and learned to be a pastor, visiting Uruguay, Argentina and his second homeland of Peru.\u00a0The <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pope-argentina-uruguay-peru-francis-61b5070aae066765003a87ea5a063af8\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Nov. 6-17 trip<\/a><\/span> marks the longest and farthest of his papacy and is coming just three weeks after Leo underwent surgery Oct. 13 to remove a <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pope-leo-xiv-lung-cancer-adenocarcinoma-56b1c4fa87864d157eb3999a64f94c87\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">cancerous tumor<\/a><\/span> from his right lung. Doctors nevertheless gave him the green light to make the trip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Latin America still is home to around 40% of the world\u2019s 1.4 billion Catholics, but the Catholic proportion of the region\u2019s population has <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.apnews.com\/features\/2023\/the-nones\/the-nones-south-america.html\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">shrunk in recent year<\/a><\/span> s and the decreases are especially notable in the countries Leo will visit. The visit begins with a welcome ceremony at the Plaza Independencia in the center of Montevideo, a symbol of Uruguay\u2019s national identity and history.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Pope Leo XIV is returning home to the continent where he spent two decades as a missionary priest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88147,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88146\/revisions\/88147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}