Jumping in unison inside the concrete bowels of Arrowhead Stadium, shirtless and still wearing their game shorts and cleats, Argentina’s players tilted their heads back and chanted at the top of their voices, invoking a sacred pair of names — one a place, the other a person — that inevitably define any clash with England. […]
As Argentines bid farewell to Pope Francis, the grief of the faithful has been deepened by a lingering sorrow, a question that has hung in the Buenos Aires air: Why did their native son never return home? “I have to be honest, I didn’t like that he never came to Argentina,” Laura Aguirre, 50, a […]
At the cathedral mourners lined up to take photos of a framed photograph of the pope before a gilded altar. It was flanked by a papal tiara and a giant staff, meant to symbolize his pastoral work. In a notebook, they scrawled messages of condolences. “He was just different,” said Diana Pallais, 56, a Nicaraguan […]
