A week after the meeting that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, had with Francisco, the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, met briefly this Sunday with the Pope, with whom he expressed his concern for the situation of the people. migrants, “that’s why he invited him to visit the Canary Islands,” according to government sources. The meeting took place moments before the canonization of seven Spanish Franciscans, called “martyrs of Damascus”, murdered for “hatred of the faith” in 1860.
Previously, during a reception organized Saturday afternoon at the headquarters of the Spanish Embassy to the Holy See, and in the presence of the President of the Episcopal Conference, Luis Argüello, or the Cardinal of Barcelona, Juan José Omella, Bolaños had shown confidence in his ability to “reach consensus” with the Spanish Church on two of the major points of friction in recent months: the application of the recommendations contained in the Ombudsman’s report on victims of abuse in within the Church, or respect for the Democratic Memory Law for the resignification of the Cuelgamuros Valley, which will involve the departure of the Benedictines from the valley and a new presence of the Church in the complex.
In this sense, the Minister of the Presidency spoke of the “broad vocation for dialogue” maintained with the Catholic Church, while expressing the “most absolute predisposition” of the Spanish government to “reach an agreement with the Church to resolve these two questions. continue a tradition of maximum understanding and loyalty.
At the same time, Bolaños highlighted the “shared concern” with the bishops regarding the migration crisis or the war in the Middle East. Thus, the minister stressed that the Spanish government’s concern for peace, the defense of international humanitarian law and the situation of migrants, “implies a common reflection on which country we want to be in the world and which Europe we want to contribute to. “.
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