I don’t care if the Yolanda Díaz’s visit to the Pope It is a marketing operation by the vice president, or a thoughtful high-level political contact – blessed by Pedro Sanchez– between the Government of Spain and the Vatican. I consider that both things are compatible, complementary and useful to muffle the apocalyptic bellows that the extreme right and the Spanish ultramontane clergy utter.
On the other hand, it is difficult for me to accept that Macarena Puentes, nothing less than a whole Secretary of Communication of the PP of Madrid, has dared to describe as communist summit the meeting of the pontiff with Minister Díaz. The phrase of the popular leader worries me, not because of what she says, but because of what she ignores. Surely Mrs. Puentes is unaware of the thesis of the national reconciliation and the so-called Christian-Marxist dialogue which generated abundant literature a few decades ago.
At the end of the 70s of the last century, Santiago Carrillo He said: “Today we can no longer see religion as the opium of the people, but in broad sectors of Christianity there are attitudes favorable to the oppressed classes”. Perhaps our Macarenas on duty would like to review the history and consult the father’s biographies on the internet Jose Maria Llanos, from José María Díez-Alegría, from Garcia Nieto and, above all, of thinkers like Alfonso Carlos Comín.
To those who tear their clothes due to the meeting between the Galician communist and Bergoglio, I recommend reading Comín’s contributions regarding the renewal of Christian thought. I also encourage you to study your link and life experience under the Franco dictatorship with organizations related to communism. It is hard to believe that Catholic ultras forget that, inspired by the Liberation Theology, the movement was born Christians for Socialism to fight against inequalities social and in favor of the oppressed.
With these precedents, and many more that would be excessive to point out, no one should be surprised by the handshake of a minister from a progressive government with a socially sensitive Latin American pontiff. Isn’t it comforting that our political, or religious, authorities are addressing the work problem wage earner, consequences of climate change and the effects of the pandemic?
I do not know how the content of the encyclical has sat within the PP, or Vox All Brothers, or that of the If praised. I am afraid they have not read them; I think they don’t give a damn about its content. The discrepancy of the most conservative sectors of the Spanish Church with the Pope is palpable when they show, without modesty, their perplexity day after day at the pontiff’s statements and political initiatives.
To the nonsense, punctual if you like, by Macarena Puentes, we must add the bland comments of Isabel Diaz Ayuso regarding the papal self-criticism of the work apostolic of the Church in America; the acidity of the president of Madrid has managed to dislodge the same Episcopal Conference.
The icing on the cake has been put by the fireproof Paco Marhuenda with an article titled An anti-Spanish Pope, in which he accuses the Argentine “of splashing in the mud of the false progressivism of the sectarian left”. Pathetic and sad at the same time. At this point in the series, what is remarkable is no longer whether Yolanda Díaz is making a tailored suit to aspire to Moncloa (personally I think so); what is relevant is the torment of the jealousy that has taken over the Spanish right seeing a roja and the Pope smile in the Vatican.
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