Tens of thousands watch Pope celebrate Mass in Uruguay, just weeks after cancer surgery | DW News

Pope Leo has been welcomed by crowds in Uruguay's capital Montevideo at the start of his South American tour. The Pope said he was feeling well after recovering from recent lung cancer surgery. Leo will later visit Argentina as well as Peru, where he spent two decades as a bishop.
DW News speaks to Colleen Dulle, Vatican Correspondent at America Magazine, a Jesuit Catholic monthly, as well as to Vatican Correspondent Justin McLellan, from the National Catholic Reporter.

Chapter Breakdown
0:00 Pope Leo embarks on grueling tour of South America
0.35 Colleen Dulle on Pope Leo showing his determination on tour, and why this South America tour is deeply personal to him
2:59 Pope Leo views himself as a pope of Catholic "social teaching"
4:15 Pope to present a message of peace in Argentina
5:03 Justin McLellan in Uruguay on Pope's longest trip of his papacy
6:51 Why Pope Leo has begun in Latin America's most secular country, Uruguay

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