Catholic personalities warn the Pope of Pedro Sánchez's "divisive policies"

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Before the visit of the President of the Government,

, to

this Saturday at the Vatican, an audience that the socialist leader used during the debate of the motion of censure as an ace up his sleeve to attack the PP and Vox, one hundred personalities from the Catholic field and some thirty entities have sent a letter to the Supreme Pontiff in which they express "their concern" about some laws of the Spanish Government that, in their opinion, are "deeply foreign" in Spanish society.

Specifically, they point to those on Euthanasia and Education, as well as the draft law on Abortion, which "collide head-on with the Christian conception and the teaching of the Churches."

The letter expresses its fear that "the dominance of the communication media owned by the Government" of Sánchez, who has defined Francisco as an "inspiring character", distorts both the political reality of Spain and the result of the hearing of the Socialist leader in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican, the first he has with Pope Francis, whom he plans to invite to visit Spain once the coronavirus pandemic is overcome.

The manifesto expresses the fear that the Government will make a "unilateral presentation of the results of the hearing in terms that, because they do not respond to reality, could cause confusion among citizens as a whole, and especially among Catholics."

Therefore, they ask that it also be "the voice of the Church" and not only the Executive presided over by Sánchez that reports on the details of this meeting once it has been held.

Among the personalities and associations that signed the letter to the Pope are the professor of Philosophy at the Rey Juan Carlos University,

, the former Minister of the Interior

, the director of the Institute of Life Sciences (UCV), the former leader of the Basque PP

, as well as the European Federation One of Us Spain and the Villacisneros Foundation.

This urgent reaction is part of the climate of concern that the sudden hearing of Sánchez with the PP has created in the Spanish Church.

When it occurred at a time of extreme coldness of the Spanish ecclesial leadership with the Government, due to their discrepancies with respect to the concerted school, the demand for payment of the IBI and even due to the interpretation of the Historical Memory Law ...

Although the current president of the Episcopal Conference, Juan José Omella, is one of the Pope's trusted men, it is worrying that Sánchez will use the meeting as a kind of papal blessing to his policies.

In this sense, the government's appropriation of the latest encyclical by Francisco,

, has not been liked

to attack conservative positions.

Upon meeting, Sánchez, Vice President

and several members of Podemos celebrated it publicly, in their attempt to use Pope Francis as a new progressive icon to delve into the social and political division.

"I share with the Pope the call to build a more just and united world. Francis analyzes the crisis we are experiencing from a radically social perspective. Thank you for raising your voice in defense of the most vulnerable and crying out against the effects of neoliberalism and populism." the president wrote on October 5 on his Twitter account.

The last visit of a President of the Government of Spain to the Vatican took place on April 15, 2013 with

and his wife,

.

The popular leader was the first European president to visit Pope Francis.

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