Below are links to storys about Sr. Pauline's visit to Argentina.
These links are in Spanish
Dr. Juan Enrique Romero a Veterinarian in Buenos Aries Argentina invited Sr Pauline to give a talk at the Latin American Veterinarian Congress which was held in Buenos Aries. He wanted her to speak to the press about the prison dog programs she developed in order to convince the authorities of Argentina to start a prison dog program in Argentina.
After seeing how wonderful the Federal Police dogs were trained, there was no doubt that Argentina could have a fine program if everything came together for them to start.
While in Argentina, Sr Pauline went to visit a Leper Colony outside Buenos Aries at the Sommer Hospital where the Lepers stay in small homes, isolated from the rest of the world, not by locked fences but because of societies cruelty to shun them. It was here that Sr Pauline met the Holy Father Pope Benedict the Xvi’s two cousins that are the descendents of the Holy Father’s Father’s brother who left Germany during the world for South America where he had a son who had a daughter and her children developed Leprosy, a very sad disease that distorts features and causes life time rejections.
It was meeting Ruben and Alica that I came to know more about the fragility of life. Ruben’s legs are ulcerated, oozing and painful. Both the arms, hands and feet of Ruben, his sister and her husband Raul have lost feeling so they don’t know how hot the milk is for the baby.. Something that we wouldn’t think of, but they do all the time.
They live by the graveyard where all the Lepers are burned when they die… and are constantly reminded that they are unwanted. Sr Pauline is thankful that she was able to meet Ruben and his sister Alica and she wants to reach out to the Lepers around the world.