The Spanish Left has an undying hatred for the Church.
You Can Always Tell When Spain Has a Leftist Government
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Just change your statement to this, Donald: “The left has an undying hatred for the Catholic Church.”
They yearn for the return of Al-Andalus.
The priests in Republican territory fell into four categories – those protected by the Basque militias, those who fled into exile, those who hid out successfully, and those who were slaughtered. The last numbered about 4,000 of a pre-war population of 31,000 priests. The mortality rate for priests and religious in Barcelona was about 80%. Today’s leftists in Spain have yet to reach that level of depravity.
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Recent opinion surveys indicate the left has lost ground in the last three years falling from 50% to about 40% of the total. They also indicate the ratio of the nationalist vote to the establishment vote on the right has increased from 0.37 to about 0.6. Voters have been moving from the left to the establishment right and from the establishment right to the nationalist right. This process is less advanced than it is in France.
Hold on.
We’re looking at this wrong.
The *bishop* actually denounced the lefty government for depriving the faithful of the sacraments.
If they exile him or something, can we get him a refugee visa? (Or maybe trade him for one of our lefty bishops.)
One gains a new appreciation for the Franco years.