The Pope is synodalized. Who will de-synodalize him?

Pope Leo XIV on his arrival at the event with civil society in Madrid.
07/06/2026
2 min

The de-synodalizer who de-synodalizes him will be a good Jiménez Losantos. The good people at Libertad Digital are climbing the walls with this pope, who seeks to alter the pyramidal structure of the Church, in favor of a new polygon where the base has more importance. This "progressive drift" pushes them to publish headlines more cryptic than the mystery of the Holy Trinity: "PS (PSOE, Sánchez) hopes that a synodalized pope and a rigged World Cup will give him a judicial respite". Well, at least a few decades ago the conspiracies were Judeo-Masonic and now they are only Catholic-footballistic: we have evolved a little. The media had to resort to these ultramontane analyses because reporting the words of Leo, who has criticized the culture of polarization, would have left them in evidence. The rock of Peter on which the Church is built is imperfect, but the rock of flint on which Losantos has built his congregation deserves many adjectives, but today we will only say that it is un-Christian.

Also at OK Diario they dodge the topic of polarization that fills practically all headlines in Spain and opt to say that Leo asks "that the religiosity of Spain be «a school of faith»". And at Alerta Digital nothing comes out for them either in terms of culture of confrontation and they write: "Leo XIV calls on young Spaniards to «transform» society with no other weapons than charity". It is quite true that the Pope is the king of Christians and, like any good monarch, his words have that virtue of being neutral enough for everyone to take the bull by the horns as they please. The pontiff's hatred for the far-right is evident. Religions make me rather bored, but Pope Leo strikes me as an interesting figure and his discourse less populist and more incisive than that of his predecessor. Seeing the people he makes nervous, I will listen to him.

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