Catholic Church to construct monument to clergy killed during Spanish Civil War

[IndianaGreen]

This is like building a monument to the memory of all the SS fallen during WWII. It is utterly disgusting! The clergy was involved in genocide, playing an active role during the Spanish Civil War.

The Spanish Catholic Church was the birthplace of Opus Dei.

Catholic Church to construct monument to clergy killed during Spanish Civil War

By Paul Stuart
6 August 2007

Valencia City Hall, controlled by the right-wing Popular Party (PP), has granted the Catholic Church the right to build a new church covering 3,000 square metres, topped with a 28-metre-high bell tower, in the former dockside warehouse district of El Grau.

The new church will be a memorial to the “martyrs of 1936,” those clergy killed during the Civil War. The Catholic Church enthusiastically supported the fascist dictator Francisco Franco.

In March 2004, the Socialist Workers Party of Spain (PSOE) was elected to office, the undeserving beneficiaries of a wave of mass popular struggle that ousted the right-wing government of Jose Maria Aznar’s Popular Party (PP). Ever since, the Catholic Church has intervened aggressively into Spanish politics in a way not seen since the 1930s. Alongside the military and the PP, the Church has mobilised rightist forces to destabilise and bring down the PSOE government.

Popular comparisons are already being made between the “Valley of the Fallen,” constructed in the hills outside Madrid by slave labour to commemorate the nationalists killed during Franco’s bloody rise to power. It contains the tomb of Franco.

The driving force behind the new church project is Archbishop Agustin Garcia-Gasco. Two years ago, he launched a campaign to have a further 250 members of the clergy who were killed between 1936 and 1939 beatified, a step before sainthood, enabling them to be publicly venerated. Garcia-Gasco declared they were “martyrs” from the Civil War, and the new church was to honour the memory of all those who died “under the same religious persecution and who were formerly beatified.”

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/aug2007/cath-a06.shtml

[yurbud]

1. sadly, most people won't know what the hell you are talking about unless they saw Pan's Labyrinth

and even then, they might not realize that the Fascist stuff in it was true.

[IndianaGreen]

2. They don't even know that the first Americans to fight fascism in Europe was the Lincoln Brigade

Our wonderful educational system is designed to develop obedient consumers, not critical thinkers.

[yurbud]

3. I think the information is out there, but the significance of it didn't really settle in until the

last couple of years.

Bush is Franco bland, but Hitler grandiose.