(ZENIT News / Buenos Aires-Rome, 01.14.2024).- According to local sources in the Argentine capital, a day after sending a letter inviting the Pope to visit the country, President Javier Milei also requested an audience with the Pope.
The audience would take place around February 11th in the Vatican City, the date on which Blessed «Mamá Antula» is set to be canonized. Canonization ceremonies are personally presided over by the Pope, and given the national importance of the figure being canonized, President Milei would be in attendance.
With this new gesture, tensions that had existed in the past between Milei and the Pope, particularly due to statements made by the former about the latter, seem to be easing.
Following Milei’s election as President of Argentina, the Pope made a phone call to him. Weeks later, President Milei formalized the invitation to the Pope to visit his birth country through a letter.
If the meeting takes place, Pope Francis would have met with the four most recent presidents of the country: Cristina Fernández, Mauricio Macri, Alberto Fernández, and Javier Milei.
