Jerónimo Podestá forgotten. When Podestá was dying, Archbishop of Buenos Aires Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J. (later Pope Francis), reached out to him and his wife. He was the only Argentine church official to visit Podestá in the hospital. Luro later said that Bergoglio defended her from the sharpest Vatican attacks on her for marrying Podestá. He died in Buenos Aires on June 23, 2000. Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato later said he had "suffered injustice, lack of understanding, slander and gossip". Clelia Luro de Podestá died in Buenos Aires on November 4, 2013. Jerónimo Podestá Jerónimo José Podestá (August 8, 1920 – June
Catholic Church in Argentina July 2010, Argentina was one of the first countries in the Latin America that legalized same-sex marriage, putting Argentina at odd's ends with the Catholic Church. Protesters, largely consisting of members of the Argentine Catholic Church and Evangelical and Protestant groups were sparked against the legislation, while demonstrating in front of the Congress. Argentina’s Synod of Bishops called upon Catholics to oppose politicians who supported the bill. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Primate of Argentina, has said that if a proposed bill giving same-sex couples the opportunity to marry and adopt children should be approved,