Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires, did not realize that his trip to the Vatican to attend the conclave to choose Pope Benedict XVI’s successor would be his final visit to his city.
Some Argentines were saddened that Pope Francis never went back to his homeland after assuming the office.
“Orphans of a father who profoundly loved his country and had to learn to become the father of the whole world” is how the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Ignacio GarcÃa Cuerva, described his diocese in a speech on Monday.
Francis’s appointment as Pope “cost us as Argentines a little bit… Bergoglio left us to become Francis,” he continued.
