One day, while walking through the streets of Moreno, Cristian Schinca saw his mom pass by with his little sister. He was 20 years old, had been sleeping for months in an abandoned bus in the neighborhood, was using cocaine, and had almost no contact with his family.
What happened in that moment was one of the most painful blows of his life: his mom tried to keep the girl from seeing him. "For me, my little sister is my everything. That was a dagger in my chest," Cristian recalls.
He had lost his job, was homeless, and spent entire nights using drugs. But that scene shook him. "My sister's love was the click," he says.
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The music at the masses of Leo XIV in Argentina did not go unnoticed. The sacred repertoires of the different celebrations were the highlight of some of the most moving moments of the papal visit. Behind each ceremony there were directors, teachers, choir members, and instrumentalists who worked for months, in coordination with the Vatican, on building the sonic atmosphere, which combined religious solemnity, folk tradition, and national identity. At various points, the Supreme Pontiff could be seen singing and moved.
"It was like welcoming the Pope into our own home, nothing compares to it," says Santiago Rosso, director and founder, a decade ago, of the "Ernesto Storani" Municipal Choir of Luján, who carried out the composition and arrangements of the songs that were in…
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One day, while walking through the streets of Moreno, Cristian Schinca saw his mother pass by with his little sister. He was 20 years old, had been sleeping for months in an abandoned bus in the neighborhood, used cocaine, and had almost no contact with his family. What happened at that moment was one of the most painful blows of his life: his mother tried to keep the girl from seeing him. "For me, my little sister is my everything. That was a dagger in my chest," Cristian recalls.
Musicians from the Colón, requests from the Vatican, and an improvisation: the behind-the-scenes story of the ensemble for the Mass of Leo XIV in Luján
The music of Leo XIV's Masses in Argentina did not go unnoticed. The sacred repertoires of the different celebrations starred in some of the most moving moments of the papal visit. Behind each ceremony were directors, teachers, choristers, and instrumentalists who worked for months, in coordination with the Vatican, on the construction of the sound atmosphere, which combined religious solemnity, folk tradition, and national identity. At various moments, the Supreme Pontiff was seen singing and moved.
"It was like welcoming the Pope into our own home, there's nothing like it," says Santiago Rosso, director and founder, a decade ago, of the "Ernesto Storani" Municipal Choir of Luján, who carried out the composition and arrangements of the songs performed during the Supreme Pontiff's last presentation in the country. "I am still very moved and impacted by what we experienced," he said, adding: "What his figure radiates is beyond comparison, it goes right through you."
Bishop Jorge Lugones: "The Pope gave warnings to all of us and also to the Government"
It is Thursday morning and the bishop of Lomas de Zamora, Bishop Jorge Lugones, is still moved. A few hours earlier he attended Pope Leo XIV's farewell at Ezeiza airport, after the massive Mass in front of the Basilica of Luján. "People wanted to see the Pope; it was something impressive and moving," says Lugones, one of the prelates who worked on the organization of the papal trip. In an interview with LA NACION, Lugones believes that the historic visit of the Supreme Pontiff, who stayed in the country for four days and mobilized millions of Catholic faithful, should challenge all actors in the system: from the Church, unions, and business leaders to the administration of Javier Milei and the opposition. "It is important that we take note and that each one takes what they need to carry out the mission that Leo has come to accomplish," emphasizes the former head of the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral Care.
Leo XIV put his fingers on the wounds of a wounded Peru that he knows like few others and cried out against violence toward women
LIMA.- Evidently happy, moved, and feeling at home—as he repeats over and over, just as he did in the previous stages of this tour that already took him to Uruguay and Argentina—Pope Leo, with delicacy, put his fingers on the wounds of his beloved Peru. In a capital full of contrasts, where total luxury coexists in some neighborhoods like San Isidro and extreme poverty in others, but where an expected "Leonmania" broke out, the former Augustinian missionary and later Peruvian bishop mentioned the great challenges facing his beloved Peru.
Leo XIV's activities in Peru scheduled for this Friday