Pope Francis has told a group of Argentine bishops on pilgrimage in Rome that, although he wants to visit his homeland, current obligations impede him from fulfilling his wish, the bishops said.
The Pope met with first of two groups of bishops from Argentina's coastal and northeastern regions on May 2 during the ad limina visit that bishops are required to make to the Vatican.
According to Argentine newspaper La Nacion, Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez of La Plata told journalists that while the Pope expressed his hope to visit his homeland, "we have no indication of a 'yes' or a 'no'; we only know that it is difficult."
