The pontiff, chatting today with former students of Jesuits from Uruguay, told them he doesn't know when he would get to their country, which borders Argentina.
Says Francis: "I don't know when a trip (to Uruguay) will be planned, surely not before 2016." He added that "what's sure is that if I visit Argentina, I will have to visit Chile and Uruguay, all three of them."
In July, Francis made first pilgrimage abroad in his now seven-month-old papacy to Brazil.