Pope Leo XIV travels to Córdoba today, Tuesday 10 November, to celebrate Mass in the grounds of the city's Military Aviation School, in the next stage of his visit to Argentina.

According to the Holy See's published itinerary, the Pope flies from Buenos Aires at 07:30 local time and arrives in Córdoba at 09:00. The Mass is scheduled for 10:00. Later in the afternoon he will meet bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated men and women, seminarians and pastoral workers at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, before flying back to Buenos Aires for a youth vigil at the Monumento de los Españoles at 20:15.

Second day of the Argentina visit

The Pope arrived in Buenos Aires on 8 November and was welcomed on the tarmac by President Javier Milei. In his first speech in Argentina, at the Palacio Libertad, he urged the country's civil leaders to safeguard democracy, protect the unborn and engage in respectful dialogue across political divides.

On 9 November he celebrated an outdoor Mass in the centre of Buenos Aires. OSV News reported that 2.5 million people attended, the largest crowd of his pontificate so far. He also visited a home for people with disabilities in Claypole and met social movements, religious leaders and the local Catholic community.

First papal visit in almost 40 years

The visit is the first by a pope to Argentina in almost 40 years, since John Paul II's trip in 1987. It is also the first papal visit to Latin America of Leo's pontificate, and the second leg of a 12-day apostolic journey that began in Uruguay on 6 November.

The trip carries special meaning because the Pope's predecessor, Francis, was born in Buenos Aires and led its archdiocese, but never returned to his homeland during his 12 years as pope. In Buenos Aires, Leo said his arrival was “personally meaningful” and that he was in some sense retracing his predecessor's steps.

What happens next

The Argentina leg ends on 11 November, when the Pope visits a federal prison in Buenos Aires and celebrates Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján, Argentina's leading pilgrimage shrine. He then flies to Peru, where he spent years as a missionary and as Bishop of Chiclayo, for the final leg of the journey, which ends in Rome on 17 November.

The 12-day journey, the longest international trip of his pontificate so far, also includes four Masses in Peru, where he will visit Lima, Chiclayo, Cusco and Pucallpa before returning to Rome.