Felipe VI highlights Leo XIV’s message as “an urgent call to overcome confrontation”

The king stressed this Friday that in a world marked by polarization, the message that Pope Leo XIV after being chosen “is an urgent call to overcome the confrontation and to open paths to mutual understanding.” Felipe VI has referred to the new Pope at the beginning of his speech after delivering the European Prize Carlos V at the Yuste monastery to Josep Borrell, former vice president of the European Commission, former representative of the foreign and security policy of the EU and former president of the European Parliament.