This trip to Spain will remain as the first extended image of this pontificate in the face of a secularized Europe which has largely ceased to think of itself as Christian. On the tarmac of Tenerife North airport, in the Canary Islands, this Friday, June 12, Leo XIV left Spain from its margins, as Francis would have done. He leaves behind six days of travel devoted largely to the question of migration and evangelization. A few hours earlier, in San Cristobal de La Laguna, the Pope linked the two. In front of organizations working for the integration of migrants, he asked Catholics not to “reduce integration to a social task, however necessary it may be,” but also to evangelize “those who arrive.”
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