He marched through the streets of Madrid behind the Blessed Sacrament, received a standing ovation in the Spanish Parliament and filled the Santiago-Bernabeu stadium. In three days, Leo XIV will have celebrated the Christian heritage of Europe with an intensity that his predecessor had never assumed. Something which resembled, in the Spanish capital, the exaltation of Catholic pride. But in this case, Leo XIV will have succeeded in a discreet move here: celebrating the Christian heritage of Europe without ever handing over the keys to the nationalists.
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