The Bishop of Mallorca, Sebastià Taltavull, has found some of his main support among the environmental movement and entities linked to critical thinking in the face of the Government's criticism of his reflections on the tourism model. The Climate Academy joined Terraferida this Wednesday in defending the prelate, after the Minister of Tourism, Jaume Bauzà, accused him of hypocrisy for denouncing the excesses of tourism in a report published in ARA Balears. The Academy considers the minister's words "inappropriate for a public official" and demands that he abandon "personal attacks" and address the problems of saturation, housing, and territorial degradation. The controversy has sparked public alignment between the bishop's social discourse and the demands of environmental entities that question the effects of the Balearic economic model.

The defense of Catalan, the denunciation of the criminalization of immigrants, the demand for decent wages and affordable housing, and the criticism of tourist excesses have turned the Bishop of Mallorca, Sebastià Taltavull, into an uncomfortable voice for Marga Prohens' Government. Sources close to the Executive acknowledge the unease over some of his interventions, which in some way portray the concessions of the PP to Vox, its parliamentary crutch, both for the hardening of the discourse on immigrants and for the setbacks in linguistic normalization. The latest episode has ended in an open confrontation: the Minister of Tourism, Jaume Bauzá, accused Taltavull of hypocrisy after the prelate recovered, in a report published in ARA Balears, a 1990 pastoral letter against the degradation of the territory and the excesses of the tourism model. It is the latest in a series of rebukes that the bishop has formulated without looking at the political color of those who govern. Taltavull has portrayed the 'sins' of the Executive.

Marga Prohens' government believes in a new God, different from the one that guides the bishop of Mallorca, Sebastià Taltavull. The Minister of Tourism Jaume Bauzà cried out in protest following the interview that the prelate gave to this newspaper. It was on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the publication of the poignant pastoral letter entitled Ecology and tourism in our Islands. Guidelines for a Christian action. It was the first time in history that the three representatives of the Balearic dioceses signed a document together. Back then, Teodor Úbeda was the bishop of Mallorca; Manuel Ureña, of Ibiza-Formentera; and Antoni Deig served as diocesan administrator of Menorca. In 1990, all three allied themselves to cry out against the terrible consequences that more than three decades of tourism boom had on the territory and the island identity.

The Bishop of Mallorca, Sebastià Taltavull, has called on citizens and politicians to put an end to the rhetoric against migrants and certain attitudes that, in his opinion, are unacceptable. He spoke this Wednesday at a press conference to address, in collaboration with various social organizations associated with the Church, the situation of the homeless on the island. At various points in his speech, Taltavull referred to the complex situation faced by migrants arriving in Mallorca.