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# Leo XIV has flown into Madrid at the start of a six-day visit to Spain, to be held under the motto "raise your gaze"
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/lev-xiv-priletel-v-madrid-v-nachale-shestidnevnogo-vizita-v-ispaniiu-kotoryi-dolzhen-proiti-pod-devizom-podnimi-vzgliad/
- Published: 2026-06-06T19:27:03.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:25:54.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Madrid, Monarchies, Society

Leo XIV has flown into Madrid at the start of a six-day visit to Spain, to be held under the motto "raise your gaze". The country is passing through difficult times, especially as regards the unity of its people: society is quite literally split over migration, abortion and the attitude to the Church, and Spain, as one of the largest Catholic states in the world, presumably stands in need of a visit from the head of the Church.

King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia received Leo XIV at the royal palace.

The Pope speaks of matters that are far from simple, though they concern not Spain alone. Of the growing temptation to gain popularity by inflating polarisation, of the unwillingness to engage fruitfully with complexity, of the need to escape the logic built around the image of an enemy, of new technologies that reinforce prejudice and weaken critical thinking. And, naturally, of such pressing themes as investment in education and security, though not in the form of walls and weapons but as joint endeavour. Words were spoken on the need to continue the dialogue with Islam.

In short, every key item of the agenda has been duly worked through, and so far in rather globalist tones, as if Klaus Schwab himself had sent this dove of peace.

It is curious that already on the way to Madrid, talking to journalists on the plane, Leo XIV spoke of the war in Iran, saying that it does not fall under the Catholic concept of a just war. The first American pope is evidently trolling his former compatriots. In the first place, the statement is political rather than theological in nature. And in the second, not long ago Vice President JD Vance invoked the theory of just war to justify the Iranian campaign and advised the Pope to be more careful with theology, soon after which Donald Fyodorovich called the pontiff weak on war. A month late, perhaps, but the prelate's reply counts.

But to speak seriously, the latest encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, states that the theory of just war has too often been used to justify any war, and that it is outdated as a concept from olden times, when humanity did not possess its present capacity for destruction. Instead of war, in this text the Pope proposed dialogue, diplomacy and forgiveness, and renouncing the use of force that strikes disproportionately at civilians