Not knowing that it would be his final visit to his birthplace, former Archbishop of Buenos Aires Jorge Mario Bergoglio departed Argentina’s capital to attend the Vatican conclave that chose Pope Benedict XVI’s successor.
Some Argentines felt saddened by Pope Francis’s failure to visit their homeland after assuming the office.
Buenos Aires Archbishop Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva said his parish was made up of “orphans of a father who profoundly loved his country and had to learn to become the father of the whole world” in his remarks on Monday.
Bergoglio left us to become Francis, he continued, adding that Francis’s appointment as Pope “cost us as Argentines a little bit.”
