乌拉圭蒙得维的亚——教皇利奥十四世不可能选一个更艰难的地方来开启他的首次拉丁美洲之行。
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay—Pope Leo XIV couldn’t have picked a tougher place to kick off his first Latin American tour.
乌拉圭是拉丁美洲天主教徒占比最低的国家——并以世俗化为荣。这个袖珍国家在一个多世纪前就将圣诞节改名为“家庭日”，不久前反教权抗议者还曾砍下一尊著名圣母像的头颅。
Uruguay has the lowest share of Catholics in Latin America—and is proudly secular. The tiny nation renamed Christmas “Family Day” more than a century ago, not long after anticlerical protesters decapitated a prominent statue of the Virgin Mary.