Pope Leo XIV's November 2026 trip to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru

In Uruguay, the first papal visit in nearly four decades,^[4] Leo visited a Montevideo parish in a neighborhood hit by drug trafficking,^[11] called for health care to be accessible to everyone, recalling his own cancer diagnosis,^[12] and celebrated his first Mass in South America before an estimated 40,000 people in Paysandú, offering an ode to the region's mate tea.^[13][14] In Argentina, a country reckoning with the church's legacy of sex abuse and cover-up, Leo met survivors of clergy abuse on November 9.^[6] He visited a home for people with disabilities and told residents their lives were a blessing, not a burden, a visit reported as a rebuke of President Javier Milei's austerity measures,^[7][15] and he drew 2.5 million people to Mass and about 1 million to a youth vigil in Buenos Aires.^[7][16] He planned to end the Argentina leg with visits to a prison and a shrine,^[17] and then returned to Peru to a nationwide welcome.^[5] In Lima he gave three addresses in a single morning, to the country's bishops, to priests and to some 40,000 faithful,^[18] and he then traveled to Chiclayo, the northern diocese he once led, where he said it was a "joy" to be home.^[5][18] His cancer is followed in its own arc, and his September trip to France in another.