{"id":88182,"date":"2026-11-08T08:22:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T13:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88182"},"modified":"2026-11-08T08:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T13:22:56","slug":"pope-wraps-up-uruguay-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pope-wraps-up-uruguay-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Wraps Up Uruguay Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/content\/dam\/vaticannews\/agenzie\/images\/srv\/2026\/11\/07\/2026-11-07-viaggio-apostolico-in-uruguay---veglia-di-preghiera-a\/1794096310295.JPG\/_jcr_content\/renditions\/cq5dam.thumbnail.cropped.250.141.jpeg\" alt=\"Pope Leo XIV at prayer vigil in Uruguay\" \/><\/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> wrapped up his visit to Uruguay on Sunday by marking an important Catholic feast day that is tied to the country\u2019s independence, capping his effort to draw attention to the role the church played in the founding of Latin America\u2019s most secular country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Leo traveled to the city of Florida, north of Montevideo, before heading to Argentina for the second leg of his three-nation tour of South America. It\u2019s expected to be the most politically delicate, given the Catholic Church\u2019s sharp criticisms of the austerity program of <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/javier-milei-profile-argentina-election-82488d49cca5aee10d4b911bde530922\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">libertarian President Javier Milei<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>For his final event in Uruguay, Leo was commemorating the feast of the Virgin of the Thirty-three. Every year, thousands of pilgrims flock to Florida on the second Sunday of every November to pray before the small wooden icon of the Virgin Mary housed there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Pope Leo XIV wrapped up his visit to Uruguay on Sunday by marking an important Catholic feast day.<\/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-88182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88182","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=88182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88183,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88182\/revisions\/88183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}