POPE LEO XIV IN MADRID : ONE MILLION FAITHFUL, A HISTORIC PARLIAMENTARY ADDRESS AND FRACTURES OVER ABORTION AND ABUSEBLIND SPOTS
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What each country's media omits, downplays, or underrepresents — and who covers those topics.
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First papal address ever delivered from the Spanish Parliament's presidential podium — a seven-minute ovation, record in a chamber usually torn by political confrontations.
Covered by SPAINClergy abuse survivors' associations denounced being sidelined from the private meeting despite the pope's public statements on the scourge of sexual violence.
Covered by SPAINRFI and Le Monde read the multilateral migration governance call as a direct response to restrictive European government policies, France included.
Covered by FRANCENBC News and Washington Post stress the million-person crowd as proof of papal influence capital without equivalent in contemporary Western politics.
Covered by UNITED STATESFox News and NPR diverge : Fox celebrates Catholic fervor, NPR treats the positions on abortion and migration with the same factual equidistance.
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