Posted on 06/08/2026 9:14:44 PM PDT by Cronos
The Podemos MEP and former Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, has lashed out at Pope Leo XIV, whom she describes as "head of a theocracy," accusing him of attacking the right to abortion during his speech this Monday in the Congress of Deputies.
In a video disseminated on her social media, Montero maintains that Leo XIV should not have had such an institutional "megaphone" to speak in the Lower House and attack "democratically won" rights such as euthanasia or the voluntary interruption of pregnancy.
According to the Podemos leader, questioning the right to abortion means going against more than half of the citizenry, while a good portion of the public representatives present in the hemicycle listened "without flinching" or even applauded him "with enthusiasm." In line with this stance, Podemos decided not to attend the event, and its four deputies left their seats empty during Leo XIV's speech.
To conclude, she pointed out that she considers it positive to "reclaim some Christian values where everything is so dark today," but warned that this "cannot lead to deception," since, in her opinion, it is essential to undertake "urgent" changes and "neither the Pope nor the Catholic Church" will be allies in that process.
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Leftists created another sacrament.....
they call it “abortion”.
The head of a state that is also the seat of a major world religion is running a theocracy. I should hope so.
What you said.
This Montero character’s obeisance to planned parenthood is reprehensible.
Two euphemistic terms that hide the murderous reality behind them. Euthanasia means “good death” and “voluntary interruption of pregnancy” conceals the fact that an innocent baby is being savagely murdered in what should be the safest place in the world—her mother’s womb.
I've always found that second euphemism especially deceptive, insofar as it suggests that the pregnancy has been merely "suspended" - as though the pregnancy could then be recontinued or resumed at some later point in time!
Regards,
The neopagan, childsacrificing, self-worshiping feminazi will soon experience Sharia. The Muslims don’t murder their own children and are overrunning Europe.
She’s a dreadful person! Her ideas are dreadful and sinful.
But she’s right that the pope is the head of a theocracy. If not a theocracy, then what else would it be?
“A theocracy is a system of government where religious leaders hold supreme political authority, and the state’s laws are directly based on religious texts and doctrines. In this structure, the government claims to rule on behalf of a deity or divine power, and there is no legal separation between church and state.”
What a female genuis/ s
Yes, it IS an official literal theocracy.
I see she has no problem with that head chopping theocracy called Iran.
No, it’s the theocracy of agape she has a problem with,,
The theocracy of hate, rape, pedophilia and murder gets a pass ?
Her personal Priorities I guess.
Wow Vatican City is a theocracy? Who knew !!!!??
There is no right to sin.
Funny that no one remembers this screeching madwoman is also the prime driver behind mass amnesty for 1 1/2 million African illegal immigrants in Spain.
She was all in on the Great Replacement: said that’s exactly what they were doing.
Her plan: get the White people to abort themselves out of existence while importing millions of non-Whites.
And that’s her only plan: kill Europeans.
Guess it’s the brown eyes. She’s eternally mad that she ain’t got blues.
The far left is at it again.
At all.
Irene Montero is the minion of a theocracy whose god is Moloch.
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