We already know what happens with bombshell news. For a while, everyone talks about them but they soon fall into oblivion. We live a life that is too rushed with constant new inputs. In reality, we are not enough and, at the same time, situations end up normalizing. We have seen it recently with Ana Obregón and her daughter, her granddaughter, or with Shakira’s “clearly.” “Everything passes and everything remains, but ours is to pass,” wrote Antonio Machado.
Now, it seems that the surprising love story between the bishop emeritus Xavier Novell and the psychologist Silvia Caballol is condemned to remain, to continue in the mouths of those who not long ago were his devoted parishioners. And not just them.
In a normal situation, after the news of the religious wedding and the interview that Caballol gave to the TV3 program Col·lapse, the matter would have diminished until it almost disappeared, like everyone else. But what we didn’t count on was a protagonist who wanted to keep the fire alive on her Instagram profile, which serves, as she said on regional television, to “show the reality of our lives.”
Many of her followers are waiting for a new publication from her like someone waiting for a new episode of the soap opera. And the photos and comments that she publishes prevent the attention of her, still faithful, public from waning.
Without going too far, on April 27 she published a very intimate audio of her husband that we can all hear. The former bishop of Solsona lovingly declares to his wife: “My love, I am madly in love with you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, madly.” She contextualizes her moment in a long text, in which she explains: “On this occasion we met at the Miracle. This morning, while he was driving there, from the car, he sent me an audio that has widened my heart; one of many that he does to me and shows me day after day; and that make me so immensely rich.”
For those who do not know, the Miracle is a reference sanctuary and monastery in the former diocese of Bishop Novell, where, by the way, after Sunday masses, parishioners gather in a huddle to discuss the new stories that Caballol shares.
The last episode is from this past weekend. On Friday he informed the staff that the family was spending four days in a rural house in Vilanova d’Isanta “with spectacular exteriors located at the foot of Port del Compte”, he specified without fear that someone would come to greet them. In the images you can see the house, children with their faces uncovered, the bishop in love and her with a photographic filter.
But of the last posts, the one that has caught my attention the most is the one dedicated to a hotel, the Vella Farga. This is a fantastic Relais
That the couple spent the night in the bishop’s room is boccato di cardinale for the gossips, those who, according to her, make their lives impossible along with the ruthless media that invent stories about her. “They are creative with enthusiasm,” she said in the TV3 interview. “They only look at the audiences, they see an opportunity and say, ‘let’s take advantage of it,’ and human beings, if they are not cultivated, are very basic,” Caballol lamented while encouraging everyone to examine their conscience. “I do it often,” she exemplified.
If so, I don’t know what your conscience will tell you about not sticking rigorously to the truth, pointing out that you slept in a room where you really weren’t. Looking at the photographs you can clearly see that the couple stayed in the next room, that of Tieta (aunt). But Caballol couldn’t let this irony of fate escape (as if his real story didn’t already have enough of it). It was just necessary to manipulate the situation a little. As a human being, she also fell into the temptation of morbidity.
Silvia Caballol also denounced “the double standards of the media” in the interview. “On the one hand, they send you anti-bullying campaigns, and on the other, they bully you.” But whoever is free from sin, let him cast the first stone. The undersigned contacted her to talk a few weeks ago, to which she agreed. “If you need to compare information, even talk about current events, I would not see any problem,” she wrote. But, as it is, despite sending her new messages, she never responded again. She, who warns that “there are limits that should not be crossed” and that “we must set an example,” did full-blown ghosting. After a few days, the exclusive interview (the first and the last, according to her) appeared on the Catalan television program.
I don’t know what the next chapter that Cabalol will publish about his serialized novel will be, nor whether I should believe it at all… but the truth is that all the talk is getting a little boring. And on more than one occasion she stated in the interview that her husband “doesn’t want me to talk about our story.” Does he see his posts? “She prefers anonymity and a quiet and humble life,” added she, who defines herself as “wife of the perfect man.” But of course, she also pointed out in the interview that she is a “person with high abilities” and, as a consequence, she is “intense and dynamic.” Will that.
