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...He also opposed abortion, denied climate change and attacked the Argentine-born Pope Francis, a former Buenos Aires archbishop, as a “filthy leftist” and an “imbecile”....
...Pope Francis, who is from Argentina, said he wished “to express my solidarity and closeness in this delicate moment”....
...Chelsea’s £107mn move for Enzo Fernández last month, a record in England, only just makes the top five....
...The two leaders spoke for 35 minutes and discussed their common admiration for Pope Francis, who is Argentine, and the Catholic values they share, the foreign ministry in Buenos Aires said....
...Argentina has become the first major Latin American country to legalise abortion on demand, putting the home of Pope Francis at the vanguard of a region that has some of the world’s most restrictive abortion...
...The letter closed by citing the Argentine Pope Francis I, who has consistently expressed support for Mr Fernández: “Debts [should not] be repaid through unbearable sacrifices.”...
...While downplaying the role said to have been played by Pope Francis in helping to patch up his relationship with Ms Fernández de Kirchner in early 2018, he did emphasise the influence of the Argentine pontiff...
...Pope Francis is looking relaxed and playful, seated on a red velvet sofa with a battered brown concertina in his hands, a large medallion draped across his cassock in place of a stole....
...“May we never again enter this labyrinth [of indebtedness], please,” President Alberto Fernández said in a speech, flanked by regional governors and leading members of congress....
...He met Pope Francis last week and will meet German chancellor Angela Merkel and France’s president Emmanuel Macron this week. How did it get to this?...
...Just days earlier Mr Guzmán held “constructive” informal talks in Rome sponsored by Pope Francis, an Argentine, with the IMF’s new managing director, Kristalina Georgieva, with no mention of a possible haircut...
...Among the critics of the 12-year period when Fernández and her husband Néstor Kirchner ruled was the Buenos Aires “slum bishop” Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, who railed against not just poverty but corruption...
...“Francis encouraged Alberto’s reconciliation with Cristina,” said a close adviser to Alberto Fernández, who had fallen out with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the firebrand former president, a decade earlier...
...Mr Fernández’s running mate is the former populist president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (no relation)....
...Its most famous representative is Pope Francis, who lives in a Vatican guest house and drives a 1984 Renault....
...His sister, Gioconda, went on to train as a chef at Francis Mallmann’s well-known restaurant, Garzón, in Uruguay....
...Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, a former president who is now a senator, voted for abortion....
...Pope Francis, an Argentine, recently admitted to having seen one when he was 42....
...That was writer Francis Carco’s impression of Matisse’s Hôtel Regina apartment in Nice in 1941....
...Pablo Picasso’s portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto sold for $51m in 2010 — up from $29m at its 1995 sale....
...The lack of statistics has also stoked rumours about apparent coolness between Buenos Aires and Pope Francis....
...Analysts say that overcoming the economic imbalances inherited from Cristina Fernández, Mr Macri’s predecessor, is proving much harder than first thought....
...He is the author of ‘The Hand of God’ and ‘Francis: Pope of Good Promise’, biographies of Diego Maradona and Pope Francis, respectively...
...He cites Pope Francis, an Argentine, as a model: “Sometimes you have figures who are leaders in this world who give such a strong example that then it’s followed.”...
...“I told him I would be very happy, proud and honoured if he [stayed],” Macri says with the reverent tone he otherwise uses for Pope Francis I, whom he describes as “the most important Argentine”....
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