Pope Leo XIV will meet with the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, on Tuesday, June 9 in the afternoon, at 4:15 p.m. It was a meeting that was not on the Pontiff’s public agenda and was already planned, since between the midday prayer at the Barcelona cathedral and the event at the Lluís Companys stadium there were several free hours which, according to the trip organizers, were for private meetings of the Pontiff.
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In Madrid, although the timing has not yet been decided, a meeting is also planned with the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who has been at the Vatican this week, and in the Congress of Deputies another of five or ten minutes with the leader of the opposition and president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. An appointment that would follow the one Robert Prevost will have with Pedro Sánchez on June 8 at the nunciature, the diplomatic headquarters of the Holy See.
Meetings with Popular Party leaders, unlike Illa’s, are not yet in the detailed program managed in Rome.
On the other hand, the controversy caused by the blessing of the Jesus tower of the Sagrada Família being only in Spanish has reached the Vatican. The Holy See does not rule out a change regarding the language and sources consulted indicate that “common sense” will prevail.
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The Archdiocese of Barcelona, in turn, through Cardinal Juan José Omella, has made the necessary arrangements to change the language chosen at the most iconic moment of the Pope’s trip, the blessing of the Jesus tower. In the Catalan Church, various voices take for granted that Catalan will be used at the climax of the Pontiff’s visit to Catalonia.
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On Tuesday, at the celebration in the cathedral, it is planned to use Catalan and Latin, according to Catalunya Religió and confirmed by ecclesiastical sources. Those two languages have also been chosen in Montserrat. They are the usual ones. However, in the homily that the Pope may give, it is most likely to be in Spanish.
In the Brians prison, the director’s speech will be in Catalan and the priest of the penitentiary center, Jesús Bel, will use both Catalan and Spanish in his speech.
In total, 22 speeches by Robert Prevost are planned in Spain, of which 21 will be in Spanish and one in French, with migrants in the Canary Islands.
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