Papal Diplomacy With Monarchs Masks Spiritual Apostasy
The National Register portal reports on a commentary by Father Raymond J. de Souza analyzing Pope Leo XIV’s diplomatic overtures to Spain and Monaco as a deliberate shift from Pope Francis’s approach. The article highlights how Leo welcomed King Charles III and Queen Camilla as “Royal Confraters,” installed King Felipe VI as honorary canon at St. Mary Major, and made a lightning visit to Monaco — all framed as “easing frictions” and reengaging Catholic Europe. What is conspicuously absent from this entire discussion is any mention of the Catholic Church’s duty to proclaim the Social Kingship of Christ over all nations, not to cozy up to monarchs who preside over abortion, religious indifferentism, and secular governance.


