Anonymous7 days ago
Pope Leo XIV arrives in Spain on June 6, 2026, for a weeklong visit—the first papal trip to the country in 15 years—into a landscape where Catholic self-identification has fallen from 90% in 1975 to roughly 55% today, and where the populist right, led by Vox, is openly attacking bishops over immigration and accusing the Church of ideological capitulation. The visit, spanning Madrid, Barcelona, and the Canary Islands, touches on migration, the Valley of the Fallen controversy, youth disengagement, and the deeper question of whether the centuries-old alliance between Spanish conservatism and Catholicism is breaking apart for good.