"'One and not fifty-one'", they say the Pope says

The Church has a long tradition in the business of issuing messages ambiguous enough to be interpreted at the convenience of the times (and of the other powers with which it has to triangulate). The Pope urged Catalans to be “builders of unity” and, of course, the cave has not taken long to put it on the front page. Because, in their mental framework, the word unidad is just the tip of the iceberg of the phrase unidad de la España entera. And, thus, when Abc or El Mundo print this papal exhortation in favor of unity on their respective front pages, they do so to convey that the pontiff is demanding that the independence joke cease once and for all. On the other hand, let's compare it with this subtitle from La Vanguardia: “Leo XIV asks «people from Barcelona and Catalans» to become «builders of unity», beyond polarization”. Adding that the plea is also for the people of Barcelona is important, because it deactivates the strictly national reading of the matter. And the reference to polarization reinforces the idea that we are not talking about the territorial integration of Catalonia with Spain, but about another issue that, incidentally, points out these enthusiastic headlines quite a bit, as a source and generator of eternal friction.

One already understands that after the Pope confessed that white is not only the color of his robe, but also that of his favorite team's jersey, the Madrid newspapers float in a state of levitation, close to ecstasy. And that the broadcast of the ineffable ecclesiastical goals experienced at the Bernabéu at the hands of Manolo Lama and Paco González still clouds their vision while others make our ears bleed. But, in the end, it will end up being easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than to find a headline in the capital's press that is not disfigured by the classic operation of distorting the context.