Crux in Argentina

Pope’s favorite feast may have lacked crowds, but not political punch
- Aug 8, 2020
Pope Francis is especially attached to St. Cajetan, and his annual feast on Aug. 7 was one of the few occasions when the beaming, jocular pontiff the world now knows was visible to his fellow Argentines when he served as Archbishop of Buenos Aires from 1998 to 2013.

By Inés San Martín
‘Francis effect’ in Argentina’s alternate reality a mix of light and shadows
- Aug 24, 2019
After being away from my home country of Argentina for the past five years, only going back to visit with the family for Christmas and the odd long weekend, I decided to avoid Rome’s scorching summer this year and head back on a reporting mission to take the country’s temperature regarding my fellow Argentinian, Pope Francis.

By Inés San Martín
Bishop calls claim that Pope meddled in Argentina’s primaries ‘science fiction’
- Aug 19, 2019
The Financial Times published an article penned by the paper’s former Buenos Aires correspondent claiming that Pope Francis was the brains behind the left-wing ticket challenging Argentina’s incumbent conservative president.

By Inés San Martín

Argentina prelate says clerical abuse crisis ‘just beginning’ in pope’s country
- Aug 17, 2019
The Argentine bishop in charge of a commission to prevent clerical sexual abuse says the pope’s native country is just beginning to come to grips with the issue.

By Inés San Martín
Argentina’s most pious spot also an epicenter of clerical abuse crisis
- Aug 13, 2019
Argentina’s most pious region also happens to be at the epicenter of the country’s clerical sexual abuse earthquake, because Salta is the metropolitan see of the Diocese of Oran.

By Inés San Martín
Ex-seminarian tells sordid story of papal ally’s Argentine past
- Aug 12, 2019
For some months now, the scandal surrounding Argentine Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, a friend of Pope Francis brought by the pontiff to Rome and given a key position in the Vatican’s financial colossus just as abuse charges were exploding back home, has taken center stage in terms of Vatican news.

By Inés San Martín