The first thing to say about the evening when the Pope blessed the tallest tower of the Sagrada Família is that we witnessed a moment for the history of the city and the country, because Gaudí's figure was recognized with a creative spectacularity (Igor Cortadellas) that was up to the monument and because the television broadcast (TV3, Paulí Subirà) was also up to the professional passion of the architect of God.
But at the end of the page where the history of this June 10, 2026 will be written, the stain of the expulsion from the temple of hundreds of singers will remain, who already had to sing mass under coercion from the close surveillance of the National Police, under suspicion that they were carrying estelades and that the rumor was that they wanted to sing Els segadors at the end of the ceremony, after having fulfilled the service they had committed to. That, after so many hours of voluntary and enthusiastic rehearsal, the singers were surrounded as if they were criminals and prevented from finishing what they had agreed upon is an inadmissible disregard.
If the competent authorities that night understand that singing the anthem of Catalonia in front of the Pope and the kings constitutes a security problem or an intolerable affront, of what reunion are they talking to us about? The national reality of the country is stubborn and does not allow itself to be surrounded, and it always ends up appearing, no matter how much repression is applied to it. The police did not look up. The State does not know how to act like Pope Leo, who gave more than sufficient signs of respect and of having understood what country he was in.
