阿根廷科尔多瓦，11月10日电 —— 教皇利奥周二在阿根廷第二大城市科尔多瓦举行露天弥撒，吸引约65万人参加，这是他在为期12天的南美之行中第二次迎来大批信众，朝圣者从全国各地赶来参加活动。
CORDOBA, Argentina, Nov 10 - Pope Leo drew some 650,000 people to an outdoor Mass in Argentina's second city of Cordoba on Tuesday, in the second strong turnout of crowds on his 12-day South America tour, as pilgrims travelled from across the country for the event.
当利奥乘坐敞篷教皇专车抵达阿根廷一处军用机场举行弥撒时，大批民众挤在护栏边，许多人挥动白黄相间的梵蒂冈旗帜，高呼“我们爱您，教皇利奥”。利奥正进行为期至11月17日的雄心勃勃的三国访问，周二他往返布宜诺斯艾利斯与科尔多瓦两地参加两场活动，单程约1300公里（807英里）。科尔多瓦坐落在西耶拉斯奇卡斯山脉麓下，拥有深厚的天主教历史和与耶稣会长久的渊源。
Throngs of people pressed against barriers on an Argentine military airfield as Leo arrived for the Mass in an open-air popemobile, many waving white-and-yellow Vatican flags and chanting "We love you, Pope Leo." Leo, on an ambitious three-country tour through November 17, is travelling some 1,300 km (807 miles) back and forth from Buenos Aires on Tuesday for two events in Cordoba, a city nestled in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas mountain range with strong Catholic history and long ties to the Jesuit order.
在弥撒讲道中，教皇赞扬了阿根廷悠久的天主教虔诚传统，提到了18世纪修女、阿根廷首位女圣人“安图拉妈妈”，以及1976年被阿根廷军政府杀害的一位主教、两位神甫和一位平信徒。
In his sermon for the Mass, the pope praised Argentina's long history of Catholic devotion, citing the example of its first woman saint, the 18th century nun known as Mama Antula, and of a bishop, two priests and a lay man who were killed by the Argentinian military junta in 1976.
他说：“在这里，在科尔多瓦……我们要感谢天主，感谢主派遣到这片阿根廷土地上的男女信众所结出的多样圣德果实。”利奥是1987年以来首位访问这个天主教占多数国家的教皇。
"Here in Cordoba ... we wish to give thanks to God for the diverse fruits of holiness borne by the men and women whom the Lord sent to this land of Argentina," he said. Leo is the first pope to visit majority-Catholic Argentina since 1987.
教皇巩固天主教据点地区 周一，约250万人在布宜诺斯艾利斯参加了与教皇共同举行的弥撒，这是他18个月教宗任期内规模最大的活动。
POPE BUTTRESSES STRONGHOLD CATHOLIC REGION Some 2.5 million took part in a Mass with the pope in Buenos Aires on Monday, in the largest event of his 18-month papacy.
教皇此行还将访问乌拉圭和秘鲁，旨在巩固一个长期以来作为天主教据点、但近期教会正因快速增长的福音派教派而失去阵地的地区。
The pope, who is also visiting Uruguay and Peru on the tour, is seeking to reinforce a region that has long been a Catholic stronghold but where the Church has been losing ground recently to fast-growing evangelical denominations.
利奥已成为世界舞台上一股有力的声音，痛斥他所看到的全球领导力失效。在阿根廷，他直接向总统哈维尔·米莱发起挑战，后者是一位自由意志主义者，也是唐纳德·特朗普的亲密盟友。
Leo has emerged as a forceful voice on the world stage, lamenting what he sees as a failure of global leadership. In Argentina, he has directly challenged President Javier Milei, a libertarian who is a close ally of Donald Trump.
周日，他敦促米莱——后者推行的紧缩议程因削减社会服务而遭到教会强烈批评——不要将矛头指向阿根廷最贫困的人群。
On Sunday, he urged Milei, who has pushed an austerity agenda that the Church has strongly criticized for cutting social services, to not target Argentina's poorest.
批评紧缩政策的科尔多瓦总主教安赫尔·西克托·罗西表示，他欢迎利奥的到访，认为这是教皇亲眼目睹阿根廷在米莱措施下如何受苦的机会。
Cordoba Cardinal Angel Sixto Rossi, a critic of the austerity policies, said he welcomed Leo's visit as a chance for the pope to see how Argentina is suffering under Milei's measures.
“他知道我们的人民多么美好，也知道丑陋的一面，即政府的领导层，”他在近期接受一家当地媒体采访时说。“他不是蒙着眼睛来的。”阿根廷外交部长巴勃罗·基尔诺表示，之所以将科尔多瓦列为教皇行程的一站，是因为它位于阿根廷中部，方便周边省份的朝圣者前来。
"He knows how beautiful our people are and the ugly part, the leadership of the government," he said in a recent interview to a local outlet. "He doesn't arrive blindfolded." Argentine foreign minister Pablo Quirno said Cordoba was chosen as a stop on the pope's tour because of its location in the center of Argentina, allowing pilgrims to travel easily from neighboring provinces.
利奥是首位出生于美国的教皇，曾在秘鲁从事传教工作数十年。梵蒂冈将此行——这是数十年来教皇最繁重的外访行程之一——描述为他的“回家之旅”。
Leo, the first US-born pope, spent decades as a missionary in Peru. The Vatican has described the trip, one of the most demanding foreign tours by a pope in decades, as a "homecoming" for him.