True to its long-standing ability to seize every opportunity to be out of step, the Spanish Episcopal Conference has found that the historical memory laws They do not delve deeper into reconciliationWhen you've had 50 years to apologize for being the spiritual arm of the Franco dictatorship and you haven't gone beyond a single apology for "specific actions" in 2007, you're not in a very good position to talk about reconciliation. The coins we carried in our pockets in 1975 made it perfectly clear:"Leader of Spain by the grace of God."Or do today's bishops still operate under the logic that the numerous murders of religious figures in the Republican zone during the Civil War justified the blessing of the winning side with the title of CrusadeBecause, moreover, Franco, who in his political testament declared himself "a faithful son of the Church, in whose bosom I will die," ended his days snubbing Pope Paul VI, refusing to answer the phone when he called to ask him not to carry out the last rites. In fact, certain figures within the Catholic Church represented a headache for the regime, such as the abbots of Montserrat, Escarré and Just. The 113 members of the Assemblea de Catalunya were arrested in a parish, and in diocesan scout groups, Catalan nationalism was so pervasive that it could make one forget for a moment that we were living under a dictatorship. The attempt to expel the Bishop of Bilbao, Antonio Añoveros, for speaking about Basque identity almost resulted in the excommunication of members of Franco's government. Isn't the Church today proud of that legacy?
