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Cardinal Confirms Pope Leo Will Speak Catalan in Barcelona After Language Controversy

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Following a row over the language Pope Leo XIV would speak during his trip to Barcelona, a cardinal has confirmed that the pope will incorporate Catalan into his visit. After days of uproar – particularly after the publication of a Vatican missal indicating that the blessing of the Tower of Jesus Christ at the Sagrada Familia would be conducted in Spanish – on Thursday Cardinal Juan José Omella, Archbishop of Barcelona, reassured people that the…

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After confirming that the Pope will use some words in Catalan in the blessing of the tower of Jesus of the Holy Family next Wednesday, the Cardinal Archbishop of Barcelona, Juan José Omella, has revealed that Leon XIV is exercising with the Catalan language. “I know from a good source that the Pope is doing exercises to speak in Catalan”, the bishop revealed in an interview in RAC 1 in which he has been surprised and upset that precisely in the …

·Granada, Spain
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The Pope's visit to Catalonia has been enveloped by a controversy fuelled by independence after it transcended that the Pope's speech in the blessing of...

·Madrid, Spain
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What can be said about the shortsightedness of Catalan national progressivism! The independence movement and a good part of the local left are shouting themselves hoarse demanding that Pope Leo XIV utter a few crumbs in Catalan during his visit to Barcelona, as if that were the spiritual event of the century. The rector of the Sagrada Familia has had to remind everyone that this isn't an ERC rally or a Barça match: no "esteladas" (Catalan indepe…

·Madrid, Spain
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Catalan personalities have sent a letter to Pope Leo XIV, published by several newspapers, to claim the Catalan language and identity before his visit to Barcelona.

The news Cardinal Omella cools the controversy of Catalan before the arrival of Leo XIV was first published in Last Minute Religious News

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Vida Nueva - Revista y portal de noticias religiosas y de Iglesia broke the news on Thursday, June 4, 2026.
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