The following is the telegram of condolence sent on behalf of the Holy Father Leo XIV by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin to Archbishop Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva of Buenos Aires, on the death, on Monday 30 June 2025, of His Eminence Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, O. F.M. Cap., Confessor of the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii, Buenos Aires, Argentina:

Telegram

HIS EXCELLENCY JORGE IGNACIO GARCÍA CUERVA
ARCHBISHOP OF BUENOS AIRES

UPON RECEIVING WITH SORROW THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF THE MOST EMINENT CARDINAL LUIS PASCUAL DRI, O.F.M.CAP., HIS HOLINESS LEO XIV EXPRESSES TO YOUR EXCELLENCY HIS DEEP SENSE OF SORROW, ASKING YOU KINDLY TO CONVEY IT ALSO TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE ORDER OF THE CAPUCHIN FRIARS MINOR, TO THE RELATIVES OF THE DECEASED, TO THE CLERGY, TO THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES AND TO THE FAITHFUL OF THE BELOVED ARCHDIOCESE.

LIKEWISE, REMEMBERING THIS DEVOTED PASTOR, WHO WAS SO DEAR TO POPE FRANCIS, AND WHO FOR SO MANY YEARS GAVE HIS LIFE TO THE SERVICE OF GOD AND THE CHURCH AS CONFESSOR AND SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR, THE HOLY FATHER OFFERS FERVENT PRAYERS FOR THE ETERNAL REPOSE OF THE AFOREMENTIONED CARDINAL, SO THAT THE LORD JESUS MAY GRANT HIM THE CROWN OF GLORY THAT DOES NOT FADE.

CARDINAL PIETRO PAROLIN
SECRETARY OF STATE