Pope heads to immigrant father’s hometown for birthday party
FILE – In this Aug. 13, 2012 file photo, Pope Francis kisses Argentinean immigrant Carlos Cardenas, left, and daughter Ana Cardenas after he visited the family at their apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Pope Francis plans to travel to Argentina at the end of his five-day visit to Mexico and the United States to visit the Cardenas, who have been in their home country of Argentina more than a decade. But the pope is also taking a more personal interest in Ana Cardenas. He plans to visit her father, who is ill in a hospital. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
FILE – In this Aug. 13, 2012 file photo, Pope Francis kisses Argentinean immigrant Carlos Cardenas, left, and daughter Ana Cardenas after he visited the family at their apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Pope Francis plans to travel to Argentina at the end of his five-day visit to Mexico and the United States to visit the Cardenas, who have been in their home country of Argentina more than a decade. But the pope is also taking a more personal interest in Ana Cardenas. He plans to visit her father, who is ill in a hospital. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Pope Francis plans to visit Argentina at the end of his five-day visit to Mexico and the United States to visit the Cardenas, who have been in their home country of Argentina more than a decade.
But the pope is also taking a more personal interest in Ana Cardenas. He plans to visit her father, who is ill in a hospital.
Cardenas is suffering from a rare hereditary disease that has caused his hands to turn blue and his face to turn yellow.
“He’s very anxious,” said his daughter, Ana Cardenas.
