Pope Leo XIV spoke on the phone, this Wednesday, June 11, with Pedro Sánchez Castejón, president of the Government of Spain, who invited him to visit the Iberian country.
The Press Office of Vatican He informed that Pope León thanked Sánchez “the presence of King Felipe and Queen Leticia in the Eucharistic celebration for the beginning of his Petrino Ministry,” on Sunday, May 18 in the Plaza de San Pedro.
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“Throughout the conversation, issues of common interest were addressed, including the immigration crisis, the need to build bridges to resolve conflicts in progress and the defense of human dignity,” adds the Vatican note.
“After talking about the IV International Conference on Financing for Development, which will be held in June in Seville, the president of the Government of Spain renewed the invitation to the Holy Father to visit the country,” concludes the note.
For his part, Pedro Sánchez pointed out in his X account that “Spain and the Vatican will continue working on the defense of human rights, in the fight against climate change and against inequalities.”
I just maintained a call with Leo XIV, @Pontifex_esto talk about the challenges facing the international community.
Spain and the Vatican will continue working on the defense of human rights, in the fight against climate change and against inequalities.
– Pedro Sánchez (@sánchezCastejon) June 11, 2025
“We agree that in the center of our action the search for peace and human dignity must be,” he added.
The last time a Pope visited Spain was in August 2011, when Benedict XVI traveled to Madrid for the World Youth Day (WYD).
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.