“After the political advocacy on Saturday, the mass on Sunday…lance The Country. On the second day of his visit to Spain, Pope Leo XIV remained faithful “his hobby horseâ€in front of more than 1.1 million people gathered in the center of Madrid on June 7, including King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia. In his homily, “eye reminded that authentic Christian values are incompatible with certain political positions, even if they claim to be Christianityâ€.
The day before, within the walls of the royal palace, the sovereign pontiff had called during a speech to “abandon discourses that divide and polarizeâ€.
Sunday, “in a necessarily different registerâ€Robert Prevost a “know how to get between the lines†a similar message:
“No one can kneel before God and despise his brother.â€
A direct criticism of Donald Trump, “quick to cite faith to start a warâ€but also European populist movements. From Spain, Leo XIV “is engaged in a global fightâ€welcomes the left-class daily. Speeches in line with the concerns expressed last November by the sovereign pontiff on the subject “risks of manipulation of the Christian message by extremist groupsâ€.
For its part, the conservative weekly ABC prefer to remember the event “the reaffirmation of faith in the public spaceâ€. This mass of the Blessed Sacrament took place on the Place de Cybèle, “an essential and almost daily place of passage for demonstrations with the most eccentric demands…. This Sunday, “It was Jesus Christ who was at the head of the procession†of 700 meters organized at the end of the ceremony, applauds the Madrid magazine, which scratches the socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in the process: “The words of the sovereign pontiff resonated forcefully in a Spain which has been undergoing a process of secularization for decades […] which Sánchez’s executive echoes, by trying in recent years to confine religion to private spaces and to limit celebrations to the confines of religious buildings.â€
As soon as the perimeter opened, at 7 a.m., a compact crowd gathered as close as possible to the stage set up in front of Madrid’s city hall. “Young people, entire families, priests, volunteers, sometimes came by bus last nightlist the daily The World. People also rushed to the security barriers along the procession route to watch the popemobile pass.†“Vive le pape†, chanted the faithful – including many Latin American nationals – as the cart passed. For the conservative newspaper, there is no doubt: with this immense crowd, accompanied by 2,100 Spanish clergy, “we attended one of the most important masses in the history of the countryâ€.
