Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Pope Leo urges Argentina to protect the vulnerable from Milei’s austerity measures

 

Pope Leo urges Argentina to protect the vulnerable from Milei’s austerity measures

By ISABEL DEBRE, NICOLE WINFIELD, ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and DEBORA REY The Associated Press,Updated November 9, 2026, 6:44 p.M
About 2.5 million of the Catholic faithful attended a Mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV at the Monument of the Spaniards in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
About 2.5 million of the Catholic faithful attended a Mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV at the Monument of the Spaniards in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires.TOMAS CUESTA/AFP via Getty Images

BUENOS AIRES — Pope Leo XIV delivered a sweeping tribute to the dignity of workers before Argentina’s labor and business leaders Monday in what critics of Argentine President Javier Milei took as a rebuke to his libertarian agenda, capping a day that began at a disability home struggling under his government’s spending cuts.

The two politically charged stops bookended Leo’s first Mass in Argentina, which the Vatican said drew an estimated 2.5 million people — the largest crowd of his papacy.

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A president who can’t forgive

 

Short Take

A president who can’t forgive

Trump would rather be himself than go to heaven
by Zac Davis
Credit: AP Photo/Alex Brandon Illustration: America Media

Let’s call it “The Narcissist’s Wager.”

Ross Douthat, a former opinion columnist for The New York Times (and occasional guest on the America Media podcast network), is now a correspondent for “60 Minutes,” and he scored an interview with President Donald Trump days after a midterm election in which his party and brand of politics suffered a stinging defeat. Mr. Douthat and Mr. Trump spent most of the interview going over many of the issues that could have prompted the election results—the Iran war, mass deportations, the economy—but the end of the conversation went to a place where maybe only Mr. Douthat could have taken it. He set up Mr. Trump with a hypothetical wager. 

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Ohio’s Republican electoral slate showcased MAGA at its worst.

 

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio, October 12, 2026 (OSV News photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters).

Midterm elections are rarely favorable to the sitting president’s party, but the GOP didn’t have to lose this badly. Trump and “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth didn’t have to start the war in Iran—the purpose of which they never quite bothered to explain—by bombing a girls’ school. Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick didn’t have to levy a haphazard array of tariffs that seemed almost consciously designed to punish states with competitive Senate elections. Trump didn’t have to sic men like former border-patrol commander and SS cosplayer Gregory Bovino on Midwestern cities.

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4 of Trump's mistakes that made him GOP's worst enemy in the midterms

 

4 of Trump's mistakes that made him GOP's worst enemy in the midterms

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Catholic theologians urge US bishops to speak against Iran war ahead of assembly

 

U.S. Navy sailors tend to a fighter jet on the flight deck of the USS George Washington in the Arabian Sea, Sept. 11, 2026. The aircraft carrier was enforcing a U.S. naval blockade against Iran and providing cover for commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. (OSV News/Reuters/Ed Ou)

Catholic theologians urge US bishops to speak against Iran war ahead of assembly

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Monday, November 9, 2026

A Generous Life and Death

 

 
A photo of a person with aged hands holding half of an open pomegranate.
 

Ripening: Aging with Grace

A Generous Life and Death 

Friday, November 6, 2026

 
 

Drawing on the wisdom of Henri Nouwen, Father Ron Rolheiser explores the opportunity to give one’s life, and even one’s death, away for the sake of others:  

In one of his last books, Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring, Henri Nouwen says that at a certain point in our lives, the question is no longer “What can I still do so that my life makes a contribution?” Rather, it becomes “How can I live now so that my death will be an optimal blessing to my family, the church, and the world?” and the central question should not be “How much time still remains?” but rather “How can I prepare now so that my dying will be a new way for me to leave a warm, nurturing, and blessing spirit behind for those who have loved me and whom I have loved?” [1] 

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Pope Leo calls for universal health care ‘in every society’ in first address in Uruguay

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Pope Leo calls for universal health care ‘in every society’ in first address in Uruguay

by Gerard O’Connell
Pope Leo XIV speaks during a welcome ceremony with Uruguay's President Yamandu Orsi at Independence Square in Montevideo, Uruguay, Nov. 6, 2026. Credit: OSV News photo/Martin Varela Umpierrez, Reuters

Soon after arriving in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, on the afternoon of Nov. 6, Pope Leo XIV issued a clarion call for universal health care not only in this small Latin American republic but also “in every society.”

From a platform erected in Independence Square, the city’s main square, the pope addressed an audience that included Uruguay’s civil and religious authorities, members of the business world, representatives of its civil society and the diplomatic corps.

Recalling his own recent cancer diagnosis and hospitalization in Rome that put his visit at risk (though on the plane he said he never doubted that the trip would go ahead), Leo drew attention to the fact that “sickness, disability, physical pain, loss of autonomy, poverty, unemployment or social exclusion can make it especially necessary that others offer help.”

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Pope Leo meets with President Milei, urges dialogue, on his first day in Argentina

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Pope Leo meets with President Milei, urges dialogue, on his first day in Argentina

by Gerard O’Connell
Pope Leo XIV speaks with Argentine President Javier Milei as the pontiff addresses civil authorities and diplomats at Palacio Libertad, Centro Cultural Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 8, 2026, during his Nov. 6-17 apostolic journey to Argentina, Peru and Uruguay.
Pope Leo XIV speaks with Argentine President Javier Milei as the pontiff addresses civil authorities and diplomats at Palacio Libertad, Centro Cultural Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 8, 2026, during his Nov. 6-17 apostolic journey to Argentina, Peru and Uruguay. Credit: OSV News photo/Yara Nardi, Reuters

Pope Leo got off to a great start on his arrival in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 8. Tens of thousands of Argentinians turned out to welcome and cheer him, but the high point of the welcome came when he delivered a powerful speech at the Palacio di Libertad, in which he addressed head on critical socio-economic and political issues in this highly polarized majority Catholic country of 46 million people.

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