“We have verified that Leo A meeting marked by the Zornoza scandal, by the abuse crisis, the agreement between the Vatican and the Government for the resignation of Cuelgamuros and with his visit to Spain already taking shape.
Also, as El País reports today, the rise of Vox and the ‘Catholic’ far-right sneaked in, which already attacked Francis in his day, and tried to dynamite (unsuccessfully) Prevost’s chances in the Conclave that elected him Pope. Leo XIV alerted the Spanish bishops of what, in his opinion, would be one of the great challenges of Spanish society and the Church: “The extreme right ideology.”
According to sources consulted by El País, during the meeting the Pope warned the prelates of the rise of these groups that seek to “instrumentalize the Church” and win “the Catholic vote.” The truth is that Prevost’s concern about the rise of the extreme right comes from afar, and not only in Spain, but in his country of birth, the United States, where the Trump Administration’s policies are breaking the plurality of a country, even persecuting ‘illegal’ migrants inside temples.
Likewise, the Pope has experienced first-hand the constant attacks from pseudo-media and ultra-conservative pressure groups, as happened to his predecessor. In this case, the existence of a dossier with false accusations that groups financed by the Spanish and American extreme right managed to sneak into the conclave, as well as continuous disinformation campaigns about their thoughts, their purposes or their collaborators.
The truth is that, after the visit to the Pope, some of Vox’s taboo topics have led to certain tensions between an episcopal majority and the main far-right party, fundamentally regarding the extraordinary regularization of migrants. At that time, the bishops also reached an agreement with the Government to open a different channel of compensation to the victims, and everything seems to indicate that, barring a major surprise, Leo XIV will visit Madrid, Barcelona, the Canary Islands and Tenerife next June.
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Source: www.eldiario.es
