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Catholic Group compares Spanish Socialist Government with the Third Reich
By h.b. - Jan 4, 2008 - 8:09 PM
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Alfredo Dagnino, President of the Asociación Católica de Propagandistas - Photo EFE
Alfredo Dagnino, President of the Asociación Católica de Propagandistas - Photo EFE
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Discussion and debate continues following the Catholic Church rally in defence of the family held in Madrid last Sunday
A Catholic association has compared Spain’s Socialist government with the German Third Reich. Commenting on Friday about the Socialist party’s response to the Catholic Church rally held in defence of the family in Madrid the previous Sunday, when Bishops and Cardinals criticised aspects of government policy, Alfredo Dagnino, President of the Asociación Católica de Propagandistas, said that the government intended ‘to strip public life of religious beliefs, and to build belief on individualism – a theory with ‘similar roots’ to the Third Reich or to Marxist countries.

He said that a religious, pacific, and healthily campaigning act such as that seen in the Plaza de Colón on Sunday, did not warrant statements as seen from the Socialist Party. He said that that some of the Government’s policies had the deliberate intention to do without God, the Church and Christianity in the vision of the world.

His comments come in sharp contrast to others made by representatives from a group of 150 grass-level Catholic collectives who issued a statement earlier in the day lamenting that the Bishops were ignoring current social reality. The Redes Cristianans group said that the Church had traditionally campaigned for equality between men and women, for democracy, and they lamented the new vision of the family being promoted by the church as something ‘monolithic’ and in agreement with the beliefs of only certain sections of the Church.

Criticism of the rally on Sunday also came from one of the leading Catholic Socialists. Francisco Vázquez, Spanish Ambassador to the Vatican, told the El País newspaper that the Cardinals Antonio María Rouco Varela and García-Gasco had led a Church attack against the Government which was unheard of in the times of democracy in Spain.

He said that the information that he had from the Vatican indicated that the protest was not to have departed from the normal demands, and that by doing so the Church had taken ‘a step backwards’.


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Comments

bob
05 Jan 2008, 04:37
Everyone knows that the effort to erradicate religion from society is a goal of any socialist/communist movement. Any idiot knows that about the teachings of Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Pol Pot ect ect. Spare me the denials by the PSOE. Im not even a religious person and can see that is the goal of this government. Anyone saying the opposite is in denial.
GreenGuy
05 Jan 2008, 16:26
How unbelievably ignorant Snr. Dagnino is. Neither Fascism or Marxism espoused individualism, in fact the complete opposite is true, i.e. totalitarianism: where the individual's rights are denied by (at best) an overbearing aggressive, government seeking to impose & enforce it's doctrine on it's people, irrespective of their beliefs (political or religious). Whatever your opinion of the current Spanish government may be, there is nothing wrong in encouraging a more secular society that respects the individual's freedom OF religion as well as freedom FROM religion. Snr. Dagnino & his cohorts would do well to move into the 21st century.
destiny nwa
05 Jan 2008, 22:18
just a bref advice if to say?for example using nigeria in tence of our beliefs politicaland regious is too corroupted ad inaspacted to us be the citizen becouse in nigeria today is ful of blibe one who does not have wil not live; intemidation are too much pls i am dieing in hungry here in maroc because i want to make it to spain?help me sir or madam and to whom it may concern this is my phone no +21278169823 thanks 4 god as had me,
jakii bruja
08 Jan 2008, 08:37
why dont the monoist/monothesist religious & atheist fools stop trying to brainwash people,i have no problem with true expressions of belief but this lot are embarassing & blasphomus to isis,horus,sekhmet,osiris,sophia, lilith...who created their cultures religion philosophy & history anyway
ander
25 Feb 2008, 10:32
democracy in Spain? The King Juan Carlos, Catholics, PP and Opus, they all had very close links to Franco.
They should be excluded from politics since their core objective is to secure/maintain the wealth that was robbed and taken during Franco. Even Francos family still have properties around Spain that they havn't returened to the rightfull owners (The palace in Galicia for example)
ander
25 Feb 2008, 10:32
democracy in Spain? The King Juan Carlos, Catholics, PP and Opus, they all had very close links to Franco.
They should be excluded from politics since their core objective is to secure/maintain the wealth that was robbed and taken during Franco. Even Francos family still have properties around Spain that they havn't returened to the rightfull owners (The palace in Galicia for example)
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