Pope Leo XIV used his first full day in Argentina to visit Cottolengo Don Orione, a home for more than 400 people with disabilities, and emphasize Catholic social teaching that places vulnerable people at the center of economic policy. His remarks that people with disabilities were a blessing rather than a burden, and that economic success should give way to charity, were not explicitly framed as criticism but were widely interpreted as a veiled rebuke of President Javier Milei’s austerity measures and political style. The visit came days before Argentina’s Senate was due to debate disability-benefit funding for next year’s budget, legislation Milei opposes.