Milei asked for forgiveness from the Pope and told what the pontiff answered him

“Something we did evil for the Pope”

Since taking over the papacy in 2013, Francisco has never returned to his home country, producing a hiatus of pain in many Catholic faithful in the country. The political polarization that Argentina has been experiencing for years is one of the reasons pointed out among newspapers and people who lived with Jorge Bergoglio to explain Francis’ refusal to visit his country and rediscover with his origins.

“Something we did badly for the Pope not wanting to go back (our country). Time will say,” Milei said in the same interview.

The government also lived a controversy with the Pope’s family: Mauro Bergoglio, Pope Francis’ nephew, received a donation to go to the pontiff’s wake. The case generated an impasse with the Argentine government of Javier Milei. Asked in the interview if the presidential entourage was sought to bring Pope Francis’ direct and indirect family members, Milei said the government was not sought.

The local opposition accused Javier Milei of excluding Pope Francis’ relatives by setting up the entourage he traveled to the funeral.

Malei in the front row

The Argentine president was in the front row among world leaders, alongside Italy Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, in recognition of the nationalities that marked the life of the Supreme Pontiff. Argentina, as their country of origin, and Italy, as that of their ancestry and thirst of their pontificate. United States President Donald Trump was also in the front row.