Word: ecclesia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Spain's people thought of this was hard to learn. Madrid's Ecclesia, new weekly organ of the influential Catholic Action, warned: "We believe that a good dose of prudence is worth-while in these matters; prudence not to deduce from the silence of the proletarian masses-forbidden to strike and restrained from means of uprising-unequivocal indications of their complete contentment." Ecclesia took Spain's leaders to task for failing to note ecclesiastical protests against injustices "for example, of absentee landlordism, a deep and endemic wrong in Andalusia, where few landlords ever know...
...Ecclesia said Franco's social legislation had not gone far enough and was not always enforced: ". . . Legislation is one thing and economic reality another, and a hard and troublesome reality it is for those who must live on wages disproportionate to the cost of living...