'Long live the Virgin of Monteserrado, the Little Dark-Haired One'

Miriam Nogueras, from Junts, took advantage of the greeting, as a politician, to the Pope, to urge him to use Catalan in the events at the Sagrada Família. Then, Gabriel Rufián, from Esquerra, sent a tweet, in Spanish, which said: “Turra is coming. An absolutely bland and content-free event will fill the digital media and Catalan media circuit for days. Trivial but effective nationalism. Then to vote with PP and Vox, of course. Pure convergent mental hijacking”. And here comes the spokesperson for the Popular Party in Parliament, Juan Fernández, “has attacked the independence movement for demanding that the pontiff defend Catalan and has blamed it for the «failure of linguistic policies»" (the independence movement, not the Pope, poor man).

Honestly. Enough of all of us. I thought what Nogueras did was correct, and the only criticism I have is that she should have said it in Latin. I consider Gabriel Rufián's tweet completely out of place, and very rude to speak of “trivial nationalism”, because I don't quite see what the other nationalism is like, if it exists. Perhaps it is transcendent.

Mr. PP's sentence is simply one of those that make you Grok when you don't want to think too much and have to speak.

In a politically ideal world, Gabriel Rufián would have said that he applauded his rival's gesture and Juan Fernández would have said nothing, because it would be unthinkable that the Pope would not speak the language of mossèn Cinto at the Sagrada Família and Montserrat, in front of La Moreneta. But we are not in an ideal world. We are in Catalonia, and fixing the differences between independentists – or whatever they are – is a miracle that is not within the reach of the Holy Spirit.