How Felipe and Letizia lied to the Catholic Church and even deceived Pope Francis – World

The Spanish monarchy has always been closely linked to the Catholic Church. The kings of the neighboring country have always been practitioners and devotees. But with Letizia things changed. Felipe VI’s wife is not, at all, a woman of faith. He has shown it several times on different occasions. For some years now, she has not hidden the fact that she is not Catholic. But there were times when the former journalist, who now lives in the Zarzuela Palace, pretended that she had converted. “I saw the light. When I met Felipe I saw the light of the Catholic faith“, she said to the archbishop of Madrid when she was engaged to the prince of Asturias in order to justify

His conversion to Catholicism was also taken for granted when, in 2014, Felipe and Letizia – newly proclaimed kings of Spain – visited Pope Francis in the Vatican. This was, in fact, the new kings’ first trip abroad. Felipe associated himself with this deception with the highest leader of the Catholic Church. He knew that the woman was not devout and that she had never converted.

But in the couple’s past, there is also the fact of the abortion that Letizia had even before marrying Juan Carlos and Sofia’s children. An act that was never revealed to the Church.”Abortion has been legal since 1985, but Church law considers it a sacrilege punishable by excommunication. This means that anyone who has an abortion is expelled from the community of believers and excluded from the sacrament of marriage.“, wrote David Rocasolano, Letizia’s cousin, in the book ‘Adiós, Princesa’.

The hiding of this secret – of which Felipe was aware – allowed the prince of Asturias to marry his bride in the Almudena Cathedralin Madrid, and that the union was blessed by the Catholic Church.