The perplexity of what we have all experienced in these days of papal fervor and the passion of those who govern us for this religious leader still lingers. The attendance of our representatives at strange rituals and other performances called liturgies is a nauseating ignominy, there is no other name for it. The right is labeled hypocritical for proudly proclaiming their Catholicism while defending values supposedly contrary to those promoted by this particular sect on issues like immigration, but the most blatant hypocrisy is that practiced by the left. They embrace the Pope to project an anti-fascist image (forgetting the Church's long history of good relations with totalitarian regimes) while deliberately overlooking the rest of Catholic principles that are contrary to everything progressivism represents. They thus demonstrate the extent of the ethical and moral downfall of those who claim to be defenders of individual rights and freedoms. More than hypocrisy, it is, in fact, pure and simple cynicism. And a shameful betrayal of everything that has cost centuries of struggles, deaths, and suffering. There are two glaring examples: that of women and that of gay men. Seeing the entire Congress standing and applauding for seven minutes with religious fervor the leader of a particular organization that has used all its power to keep women subjugated and condemned to reproduce against their will is an image that definitively confirms the death of institutional feminism. With Francina Armengol saying "su Santidad", socialist deputies, others from Sumar, from ERC, all servile and prostrate before a man who, of course, tells them to their faces what they are doing by having abortions. All of them must be willing to return to forced reproduction. Their applause is the fertilizer that will contribute to the already initiated campaign of regression in the advances achieved by the struggle for equality. And the gay men who have attended mass and have communed with the millstones of those who have always been their executioners, those who have denied their mere and simple existence, these men also betray the long history of the struggle to decriminalize free love and sex and shamelessly adore the head of a State all too known for its homophobia.