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BARCELONA, Spain — On Monday, on the plane back to Rome from his visit to France, Pope Leo XIV called for fairer solutions as he offered his opinion on a story of an elderly, disabled woman in Spain who was evicted from her home on a stretcher.
The Maricarmen Abascal case has caused uproar in Spain, with the iconic Puerta del Sol in Madrid occupied by hundreds of tents from an encampment of people protesting against the housing crisis in the country.
Last week, Abascal was shown on TV being removed from her home of seven decades in Madrid on a stretcher and hospitalized, after her home was brought by a developer, Urbagestión.
However, news Tuesday broke that an agreement has been reached that she can stay in her home.
While admitting he didn’t know about the specifics of the case, Leo said there must be a search for “fairer solutions to prevent such cases from happening.”
He argued that the Church “as a community, as human beings, even for people who do not have faith, must seek fairer solutions to prevent such situations from occurring.”
“It seems to me that this would be a case where the neighbors,
