
The Pontiff: sharing a legacy requires learning to coexist despite differences
Pope Leo
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Pope Leo
The Pope asks Argentines to always have democracy at heart. "Sharing a single heritage also requires learning to coexist, even in the presence of differences of thought. History teaches how much a people can grow when their differences are transformed into an opportunity for dialogue and encounter. For this reason, democracy too - said Leo XIV - belongs to the heritage that must be preserved.
Choosing one's own rulers through suffrage, participating in public life, freely expressing one's beliefs, trusting in the law" are "goods" that "every generation is called to safeguard and strengthen".

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Pope Leo XIV landed in Argentina, welcomed by President Javier Milei at Buenos Aires Aeroparque Jorge Newbery International Airport. He visited the Casa Rosada and the Palacio Libertad, giving a speech to the authorities in which he remembered his predecessor Bergoglio, invited to exercise power as a service, safeguard democracy and put economy, technology and ecology at the service of the person.

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