El periplo de León XIV por España se ha cerrado con un inconveniente técnico en el avión de Iberia en el que estaba previsto que viajara desde Tenerife, su última etapa del viaje, hacia Roma. El Papa ha embarcado finalmente en un avión Falcon del Grupo 45 del Ejército del Aire que se encontraba ya en Canarias, para viajar en dirección a Italia. La aeronave ha sido cedida por el Rey, y ha emprendido vuelo a las 18.09 (hora local canaria), donde está previsto que aterrice en torno a las 23.00 (hora de Roma). El Ejército del Aire enviará otro avión a Canarias para recoger a Felipe VI.

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León XIV se ha despedido de España este viernes, tras despegar a las seis de la tarde, con una mañana de gestos a contracorriente, que rematan el gran mensaje político de este viaje. El Papa ha dedicado su segunda jornada en Canarias, igual que la primera, a encontrar y abrazar a migrantes, a dialogar con ellos. Lo ha hecho precisamente el mismo día en que entra en vigor en la UE el nuevo Pacto de Migración y Asilo, que restringe los controles y acelera las expulsiones. La visita del Papa ha interferido también estos días en la narrativa que se impone sobre inmigración desde la derecha y la ultraderecha con actos como los de esta mañana en Tenerife, en el centro de acogida Las Raíces, donde ahora mismo hay 753 personas.

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Spaniards are currently getting a close look at a pope the world still knows little about. He has gone from being a mystery, a man who seemed feeble, to becoming, in the space of two months, a startling revelation after he clashed with Donald Trump in mid-April and, two weeks ago, published a far-reaching encyclical; an argument against the techno-fascism of Silicon Valley. His visit to Spain will culminate in the definitive discovery of Prevost, since it is his first major trip to Europe and he will speak to the entire Western world. But what does this pope think and why has he been so disconcerting?

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Pope Leo XIV delivered a historic speech on Monday inside Spanish parliament in a joint session of both houses, where he stressed that the moral value of political decisions must prevail “over mutable social consensus” and lamented “the permanent denigration of the adversary.”

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EL PAÍS launched an investigation into child sexual abuse by members of the Spanish Church in 2018 and maintains a database updated with all known cases. If you know of a case that has not come to light, you can write to: abusos@elpais.es. If it is a case in Latin America, the email address is: abusosamerica@elpais.es.

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Seven young Italians — five men and two women between the ages of 20 and 30, with a spirit of adventure — sparked an international diplomatic conflict with Francisco Franco’s Spain in the early 1960s. They traveled through the country as tourists in 1961, secretly recording popular songs against the regime among the people, and later released two albums and a book. It was primarily the book, Canti della nuova resistenza spagnola: 1939-1961 (Songs of the New Spanish Resistance: 1939-1961) — published in 1962 by the prestigious Turin publishing house Einaudi, where the writer Italo Calvino, a friend of the group, worked — that triggered a major scandal.

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