Category: Argentina
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Blessed Enrique Angelelli, 50 years
The Diocese of La Rioja is commemorating the 50th anniversary of its martyred bishop, Blessed Enrique Angelelli, who was killed on 5 August 1976, and his companions.
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Remembering the martyrs of La Rioja
This year, 2026, the Church of La Rioja commemorates the 50th anniversary of the martyrdom of Blessed Enrique Angelelli, Carlos de Dios Murias, Gabriel Longueville, and Wenceslao Pedernera, four witnesses of the faith murdered in 1976 during the Argentine military dictatorship, Vatican News reports.
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Argentine Cardijn apostle to be beatified
Pope Leo XIV has authorised the promulgation of a decree for the beatification of Argentine Cardijn apostle and entrepreneur, Enrique Ernesto Shaw.
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Pope Francis & popular pastoral theology
For all the accusations of doctrinal confusion it’s important to remember that Pope Francis’s magisterium was firmly rooted in Vatican II, and more specifically in its distinctly Argentine reception, known as the theology of the People, writes Claudio Ivan Remeseira.
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Pope remembers Carlos Mugica, martyr of the poor
On 11 May 1974, Argentine priest Carlos Múgica, a former YCS chaplain, known as the “Martyr of the Poor” was shot and killed after evening mass at the San Francisco Solano parish in the Villa Luro district of Buenos Aires.
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Venerable Eduardo Pironio, precursor of Pope Francis
Co-editor of the Argentine Notas de Pastoral Jocista