Pope Leo to Visit a Much More Secularized Spain Since Pope Benedict’s World Youth Day in 2011
- Spain is more secularized now than in 2011, with 42% of Spaniards not identifying with any religion, while 50% to 56% remain religious, mostly Catholic, reflecting significant societal changes since Pope Benedict XVI's World Youth Day in Madrid.
- Despite fewer young Catholics than in 2011, the importance of religion among Spanish youth has increased, with 45% identifying as Catholic in 2025, showing renewed interest and engagement with Catholicism.
- The Catholic youth of 2026 express their faith more openly and naturally, reflecting a new dialogue between the Church and young people beyond past divisions.
- Pope Leo XIV's upcoming visit is seen as a hopeful event that may guide Spanish Catholicism, offering a vital message for a pluralistic society and encouraging faith and witness despite the Church's faults.
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Although Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Spain on June 6th is very close, we have a dormant society, which I hope will awaken in those faiths...
The Ministry of the Interior will activate a comprehensive security operation for the Pope's visit to Spain from 6 to 12 June, with some 11,000 national police officers and around 2,200 civil guards.This deployment will be joined by the Mossos d'Esquadra, the Canary Islands Police and members of different local police.With the arrival of Leon XIV in Madrid, Catalonia and the Canary Islands at a little more than a month view, the holder of the In…
Around 11,000 national police officers and some 2,200 civilian guards, who will be joined by the Mossos d'Esquadra, the Canarian police and local police officers, will form the security apparatus on the occasion of the Pope's visit to Spain between 6 and 12 June.A little more than a month after the arrival of León XIV in Spain, in Madrid, Catalonia and the Canary Islands, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, presided on Monday…
Interior has already begun to lift the security shield for the visit of Pope Leo XIV to Spain. The trip of the Pontiff, planned between 6 and 12 June, will mobilize more than 13.000 agents in an unprecedented operation recent for its territorial breadth and for the logistical complexity involved in coordinating acts in Madrid, Barcelona and the Canary Islands under the current international context of alert.Continue reading...
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Pope Leo to Visit a Much More Secularized Spain Since Pope Benedict’s World Youth Day in 2011
Pope Benedict XVI addresses volunteers of World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid, Spain, Aug. 21, 2011. Two experts analyze the state of the Catholic faith among Spanish youth today, noting that while Spain is increasingly secularized, the faith is growing among young people.
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Pope Leon XIV will visit Spain between 6 and 12 June. The displacement, which includes stops in Madrid, Barcelona, Montserrat, Tenerife and Gran Canaria, has a marked historical character: it will take place fifteen years after the last presence of a Pontiff in the country that of Benedict XVI, in 2011 and will also coincide with the centenary of the death of Antoni Gaudí, deceased on 10 June 1926 in Barcelona. The Spanish Episcopal Conference h…
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