Leo XIV or the sanctification of Europe's invasion

You see, I do not enjoy attacking the Pope, if that is what this is, but I enjoy even less that the Pope attacks me.

The Vatican's Dicastery of Communication published this week a note congratulating the Sánchez government on economic and social progress. It is simply outrageous.

Its own history suggests that it is not the culture of confrontation, but rather that of encounter, which generates stability and prosperity. The message of peace which, in these times, unfortunately resonates to some as naïve and to others as provocative, finds welcome among those who do not confine themselves to prefabricated ideologies, but who open themselves to truth. I invite all, for the love of truth, to abandon the divisive and polarizing narratives of your social reality and its history. To flee from these identity-focused approaches that seem to clarify everything, yet populate the world with phantoms and enemies.

There is nothing the Pope does that is not perfectly calculated. His statements and also his silences, his actions and his omissions. In everything the Pope does, the improvisations, I assure you, are perfectly rehearsed. For many centuries Vatican diplomacy has been regarded as the finest in the world, and the best informed in the world. First, for the breadth of information networks it possesses, all the thousands of priests and lay persons who have informed the Vatican since time immemorial, but not only for the information at its disposal, but also for Vatican forms, for the forms of Vatican protocol, which are absolutely scrupulous, because the Holy See knows perfectly well that forms also transmit. Moreover, the Vatican is the school of diplomacy that transmits most through forms, that is, everything they do is perfectly measured. And they know that a substantial part of the message is transmitted through this.

So what matters with the Pope is what he says, what he remains silent about, and how he says it or when he remains silent. The message itself, the message that the Pope may give, certainly has transcendence, but in any case, one cannot expect many modifications to matters more strictly linked to the religious, although we have seen some striking things in recent times, let us say. Especially in recent pontificates, as I say.

But what matters is not so much what he says as when he says it and what place he grants in his discourse to what he says. For example, Francis did not come to Spain, which was geographically very close to him from Italy, and he did not come not only with perfect awareness of what he was doing, but within a very specific framework. Francis refused to visit that Spain which evangelized America, but did ask forgiveness for the excesses of the conquest, a forgiveness that was not his to give, well, neither as an Argentine, nor as of Italian origin, nor as Pope, because the conquest has nothing to do with what the Church did, that comes afterward and is evangelization.

It does not matter. He asked forgiveness just in case in a demonstration, moreover I want to say, of mercy and humility if ever there was. That is, to ask forgiveness for what others have done is truly fantastic. In his decision, in that decision to take that political perspective, why is it?

It was weighed by knowing he was sending a message. A very clear message at the same time that he refused to come to Spain, a Pope from what he called Latin America and who had Spanish as his own language, as his mother tongue, well, and who met in a demonstrably complacent manner, for example, with Evo Morales, to whom he gifted a cross with hammer and sickle. Well, in such a, well, I do not know how to call it, but repugnant union between the blasphemous and the sacred.

And he asked forgiveness precisely for the sacred, smiling, I do not know if complacent, but at least silent before the blasphemous, for which he always found some reason for mercy and understanding. And in that vein we continue with his nuances, which I do not say there are not.

But we continue in the same thing. You see, there were many Catholics who reproached the previous Pope for not visiting Spain. I am not among them. Let it be clear, because frankly I prefer that Francis did not come here to insult our history, because for that we paint it ourselves quite well. And we have our government, our minister of culture, our parliament, our universities, our academy, our Episcopal Conference, our monarch, who already occupy themselves, well, in dragging the history of Spain through the mud.

So better in any case not to receive imported insults. That too is something to be grateful for.

And something similar, although perhaps for reasons slightly different, but not all that much, I must say of the Pope's current visit to Spain.

Obviously I do not know what the Pope is going to say in the coming days, of course. And someone will say, «Well, if you do not know what he is going to say, wait a bit and then if so go ahead and criticize him and all that.» You see, I do not enjoy attacking the Pope, if that is what this is, but I enjoy even less that the Pope attacks me, as you see, little things of mine. And the Pope is attacking me.

Me and all Spaniards, although many do not realize it, some because they agree with the Holy See's position on many things, precisely those who never go to mass and who despise everything that has to do with faith. Others because they have developed a strange papolatry, a sort of mutation within Catholicism, giving credit, by the way, to Luther five centuries later, because Luther accused us precisely of that, of being papal worshippers and who, well, see the Pope, I do not know if as a kind of rock star, from the beyond or something similar.

In any case, in the Pope's visit there are many statements, from what we have seen so far, and many silences and many omissions. And the latter and the former are as important as the statements, because everything must be interpreted in its context. And the context of Europe and of Spain, which the Pope does not ignore, certainly, is what it is.

The Pope cannot ignore, does not ignore, does not, that Europe is being invaded. And that invasion is being carried out by sworn enemies of the Catholic religion, of Christianity in general and of civilization, transcending what is strictly religious, of Western civilization, that the situation is critical, no one reasonably informed ignores this and least of all the Pope and least of all the Vatican and the Episcopal Conference.

Well, all that the Pope has to say in this regard is that dialogue must be fostered with those who wish to destroy us and impose upon us life forms suitable. At most for the caravans of dromedaries of the Arabian desert. And I say much, because in Spain the situation is critical for the nation and let us say nothing for Catholicism, well, I believe no one escapes notice among the earless secularism of the government, the proliferation of evangelicals and the social extension of an indifference already I believe generalized that is making Spaniards a sort of zombies in religious matters.

All this is something that cannot be ignored and that is certainly not ignored by the Pope.

That in Spain we are in the hands of the most corrupt government in the history of our nation, since Sisebuto, to say something, poor Sisebuto, well, that is not something the Pope ignores either.

But the Vatican's Dicastery of Communication published this week a note congratulating the Sánchez government on economic and social progress. It is simply outrageous.

A government whose corruption lacks nothing, neither cocaine, nor assault on public funds, nor deals with the most repugnant regimes in the world, where the Ibex 35 does splendidly while Spaniards agonize each day are poorer. Well, then, nothing, we congratulate him on economic and social progress.

I do not know if this is being in the Vaticanist discourse with the excluded, with the discarded, eh, and a and forgive the language, but I cannot take any more of all this nonsense. Ladies and gentlemen of the Episcopal Conference, Gentlemen of the Vatican, Mister Leo XIV, are you supporting a degenerate government, degenerate if ever there was one, the policies of the elites, policies against the people, against ordinary folk? Come on, Spain is doing well with Sánchez according to the Vatican.

Yes, Leo 14, I accuse you of complicity with all this, with everything that is killing us on the material and spiritual plane. And, man, at least the spiritual should concern you, although I know that lately it seems you speak more, no? Lately you, whoever ceded to you and well, you speak more of the material than of the spiritual. A curious function for a Holy Father, but in any case.

In this situation in which Spain is playing with its very existence, you have chosen.

You could have gone to Covadonga or to the immigration centers in the Canaries and you chose the Canaries.

Moreover, look, so as not to be too radical, you could have gone to both places. You could have spoken of the human tragedy of immigration. I will not even ask you to denounce the private and governmental mafias that drive immigration. I will not even ask you, given that we are already speaking of politics, to denounce the NGOs as responsible for the cemetery, what they have made of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, and that they, the NGOs, together with the call of governments are responsible for the humanitarian catastrophe of thousands of dead. And you, Leo XIV, of course you know this and you remain silent and prefer a Sesame Street version in which all this apparently happens because it does, little things that happen. who knows who is responsible, no?, for all this.

People die. Well, people die because things are happening that drive them to immigrate. Well, this of course not. But look, I will not even ask you that. It would have sufficed if you had bothered to visit Covadonga, for example, and if yes, you showed all sensitivity to the human tragedy of immigration, which often it is, often it is. But also that you would point out that, as one of your predecessors said, John Paul the Second, who would have told me that I was going to cite him among my patristic sources? Well, John Paul II, Europe, be faithful to your roots.

But you do not say this.

If Leo XIV you could have done both things: point out the human tragedy and the threat to civilization and religion.

But the latter, for whatever reason, you have decided simply to ignore. And it turns out that your silences speak louder than your speeches.

All that you have to say about the president of government who receives you in a country that Sánchez treats as one of his brothels is that Spain has progressed economically and socially, which moreover is a lie, because moreover you lie. It is that moreover you lie and you did not even have a couple of hours, a damned couple of hours to take a stroll and go to the Valley of the Fallen which is 50 km from where you are staying, 50 km. that with a clear road and with the cars you have are 20 minutes, 25. Come on, it is a walk next to your house for which you did not have time because you did not feel like it.

In that Valley of the Fallen where the tomb of one of the most faithful sons of the Church has been desecrated with your complicity.

And dear and holy father, by the way, when you walk through the streets of Madrid, do not forget that all those applause and papal hysteria are possible because that man whom you removed with your complicity saved the Church from extermination ninety years ago.

An extermination to which it was destined by those before whom today you humble yourselves unworthy.

You do not fool me. You do not fool me.

You are not with the excluded, with the discarded. You are with the powerful. You are with the government of the Ibex 35. You are with the government that leaves Spaniards without housing. You are with the government that abandons Spaniards to their fate. You are with the grave robbers. You are with the government presided over by the most abject being conceivable. You are with the invaders, proud and haughty, and against the invaded, who increasingly perceive an abandonment in a more terrified manner, because you have abandoned them.

The discarded and the excluded are us.

You have come to sanctify the Episcopal Conference and migratory policies. That is why you have come. That is the truth, Leo XIV. You did not want to visit what is most dear to us, neither Covadonga nor the Valley of the Fallen.

The message and the silence are clear to those who wish to hear it. And whoever does not wish to hear it has no remedy.