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...aware," said Father Laurel at Barcelona's Monastery of Sarriá, "that to follow the principles of the Gospel and of the Vatican Council to their utmost meaning in our country, one may come under the definition of 'unlawfulness.' But this does not frighten us. Jesus Christ was the first to go against the law-against the law of the Caesars, of the Jews and of occupying powers...
Rare words for a Catholic priest, and rarer still for a Catholic priest in Spain, where the church has always hewed closely to the gospel according to Franco. But last week throughout Barcelona, one priest after another was echoing Father Laurel's sermon in the wake of the bloody police attack on 120 black-robed priests in Barcelona early this month (TIME, May 20). The clash erupted when the priests staged a march protesting alleged police brutality in connection with anti-government student unrest at Barcelona University...
Last week Barcelona's aging (76) Archbishop Gregorio Modrego Casáus was doing his best to keep the lid on. Calling all publicity "harmful," he appealed to the press to forgo any further news or comment on the police attack; he also sent a bland message to his parish priests, to be read at Sunday Masses. Since the message virtually ignored the question of police brutality to clergymen, many priests added a few choice words of their own at the end. "One of our newspapers' slogans," snapped Father Narciso Saguer Vilar of San Ildefonso's Church...
...priests were supporting the cause of Barcelona University students, who have long been demanding "free associations" in their colleges as opposed to the Madrid-dictated "syndicates" that have long called the collegiate shots. The cops, on the other hand, were merely trying to maintain order-a major problem in Spain since the days of the Moors...
...priests, that was a rocky challenge. They swarmed into Barcelona-many of them wearing zippered windbreakers over their cassocks and roaring in on motorcycles-to challenge the Archbishop on his home ground. To that extent, the clear, Catalán distortion of Joan Miró was more appropriate than Goya. But more than anything, the priests were reflecting the alienation that exists in Spain between age and ambition, between the liberal principles of the Vatican and the rigidity of the Spanish Catholic hierarchy, which automatically aligns itself with the state...