Argentina’s President Javier Milei meets Pope Francis whom he once called a ‘filthy leftist’
Pope Francis has warmly embraced the new Argentine president who had been one of his fiercest critics as the pontiff canonised the first female saint from his native country.
Francis led a canonisation mass in St Peter’s Basilica for Maria Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, an 18th-century consecrated lay woman who renounced her family’s riches to focus on charity and Jesuit spiritual exercises.
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