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Pope remembers modern martyrs, visits prison on St. Stephen’s Day

Argentina

Father Justo José Ilarraz. (Credit: Argentina's public news agency.)

Pope laicizes Argentine priest for multiple cases of child abuse

Dec 16
Eduardo Campos Lima

An opposition fighter steps on a broken bust of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, Syria, Sunday Dec. 8, 2024. (Credit: Hussein Malla/AP.)

Argentinian priest in Aleppo says Christians are not being targeted

Dec 11
Eduardo Campos Lima

Saga of Argentine ex-priest (we think) captures perils of pre-fabricated scripts

Nov 17
John L. Allen Jr.

Rather than turf wars, Argentine case may turn on difference between bad judgment and abuse

Nov 15
Elise Ann Allen

Pope, President in war of words over pension protests in Argentina

Sep 21
Crux Staff

Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Pope to make voyage to the peripheries in visit to Papua New Guinea

Aug 15
Elise Ann Allen

Argentina shaken by ouster of top bishop, successor to Vatican doctrine czar

May 28
Elise Ann Allen

Bishop Carlos Ponce de León. (Credit: Diocese of San Nicolás de los Arroyos.)

With pope’s support, Argentina’s Church looks at life of bishop supposedly killed by dictatorship

May 15
Eduardo Campos Lima

LatAm bishops voice alarm over polarization on Pope’s home continent

Apr 22
Eduardo Campos Lima

Police take position outside the Villa Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 24, 2020. (Credit: Natacha Pisarenko/AP.)

Church ministers skeptical about plan to reform prisons in Argentina

Apr 17
Eduardo Campos Lima