Pope Leo starts jam-packed South America tour just weeks after surgery

Pope Leo has started the longest trip of his papacy so far, choosing South America for his first major foreign tour after cancer surgery. What message is he sending by making this trip?

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Pope Leo has been welcomed by crowds in Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo, at the start of his South American tour.

The pope said he was feeling well after recovering from recent lung cancer surgery.

Leo will later visit Argentina as well as Peru, where he spent two decades as a bishop.

DW News spoke with Colleen Dulle, Vatican correspondent at America Magazine, a Jesuit Catholic monthly, as well as with Justin McLellan,Vatican correspondent with the National Catholic Reporter.

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