Bolaños offers the bishops, from the Vatican, a “consensual” exit of the Benedictines of Cuelgamuros

A week after the meeting that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, held with Francisco, the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, met briefly this Sunday with the Pope, with whom he agreed on his concern for the situation of the people. migrants, “which is why he has invited him to visit the Canary Islands,” according to government sources. The meeting took place moments before the canonization of seven Spanish Franciscans, the so-called ‘martyrs of Damascus’, murdered for “hatred of the faith” in 1860.

Previously, during a reception organized on Saturday afternoon at the headquarters of the Spanish embassy to the Holy See, and in the presence of the president of the Episcopal Conference, Luis Argüello, or the cardinal of Barcelona, ​​Juan José Omella, Bolaños showed his confidence in being able to “reach consensus” with the Spanish Church on two of the major points of friction in recent months: the application of the recommendations contained in the Ombudsman’s report on victims of abuse within the Church, or compliance with the Democratic Memory Law for the resignification of the Cuelgamuros Valley, which will imply the departure of the Benedictines from the valley and a new new presence of the Church in the complex.

In this sense, the Minister of the Presidency spoke of the “broad vocation for dialogue” maintained with the Catholic Church, while expressing the “most absolute predisposition” of the Government of Spain to “reach an agreement with the Church to resolve these two issues continuing a tradition of maximum understanding and loyalty.”

Along with this, Bolaños highlighted the “shared concern” with the bishops regarding the migratory crisis or the war in the Middle East. Thus, the minister has pointed out that the Spanish Government’s concern for peace, the defense of international humanitarian law and the situation of migrants, “implies a joint reflection on what country we want to be in the world and what Europe we want to contribute to.”

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