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Today, that comfortable alliance is breaking up. The church, in fact, has asserted a startling new independence from the Franco regime. Last fall, at a meeting of the National Conference of Bishops and Priests in Madrid, more than half of the delegates approved a resolution apologizing for the church's role in the civil war ("We did not always know how to be true ministers of reconciliation . . . [in] a civil war among brothers"). In December, the church's National Commission on Justice and Peace attacked the maintenance of public order by "force and repression." In January, when...
...church's posture in Spain began to shift during the reign of Pope John XXIII, particularly in the liberal climate created by his Second Vatican Council. Then, in 1967, Pope Paul VI named Italian Archbishop Luigi Dadaglio as Apostolic Nuncio-papal ambassador-to Spain. Dadaglio arrived in Madrid with a virtual mandate to bring new blood into the Spanish hierarchy. With an assist from Franco's able ambassador to the Holy See, former Washington Envoy Antonio Garrigues y Diaz Canabate, Dadaglio engineered the appointment or advancement of more than 30 Spanish bishops, the majority of them liberals. Franco...
...other non-Catholics been able to hold public meetings. But the specially warm welcome the Baptists received was also probably the result of recently strained relations between the government and the Catholic Church, which outdid each other in greeting the visitors. Both the mayor and the acting bishop of Madrid sent emissaries to the Baptists' opening meeting in the Melia Castilla Hotel. In return, the prelate was given a Bible and the mayor a cowboy hat, L.B.J.-style...
SPAIN Beyond Franco A cheering crowd of 300,000 Spaniards crushed into Madrid's Plaza de Oriente in front of the imposing 18th century Royal Palace last week and raised a stiff-armed fascist salute to the tiny, frail man of 78 on the palace balcony. The occasion was the 35th anniversary of. Generalissimo Francisco Franco's formation of the Insurgent government in 1936. Addressing the throng with tears in his eyes, the durable dictator promised in a barely audible voice that he would continue to rule "as long as God gives me life and a clear mind...
...institution in Spain-from the army to the church and even Opus Dei itself-is divided between conservative and moderately progressive wings, and on how to deal with increasing signs of unrest. In recent weeks there have been clashes between police and unemployed workers in the poor barrios of Madrid, and demonstrations against rising prices (Spain's inflation rate is 7.8%). Campus riots protesting Spain's government have become common...