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Spain: criticissima or catholic?

The church of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

The Pope will be in Santiago de Compostela next Saturday and Sunday will preside over the rite of dedication of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Spain, the land at all sluggish, lives in a way opposed the arrival of Benedict XVI. Among the items that have been raised as a comment on appointment (among other things, the debate on the use of Castilian, Catalan and Galician in the liturgies reported by El Mundo) also that of the group of theologians, "John XXIII" . These scholars who declare themselves liberals, say that the traveling Pope promotes the spread of a conservative vision of Catholicism that the Church away from the poor and, generally, by the people. Perhaps it is true that the expenditure of millions of euro is puzzling, but perhaps these gentlemen Theologians have never tried to be among the crowds who gather for the Pope: among the people there are certainly those who come for folklore and capturing the event only the formal aspect, but for a lot of that time remains imprinted in the memory as an important occasion can sometimes find reasons to have faded. The triumphant swell the ranks of the fundamentalists? I do not think, I can hardly imagine Pope Benedict XVI as far away from triumphalism.