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...warning came in the pages of Ecclesia, official journal of Spanish Catholic Action and the only magazine in Spain not censored by the government. Ecclesia listed some of the causes of the Spanish worker's "aloofness from the church," as reflected in a door-to-door survey conducted by priest-advisers to the government-sponsored unions...
Concluded Ecclesia in a follow-up editorial: let Spain "beware of a comfortable attitude of complacency toward brilliant processions and of indulging in the rash assumption that law and the police are enough to check silent storms, well-founded discontent and rampant social injustice." Next door in Portugal, a bishop raised the same warning cry last week. In a pastoral letter published in Lisbon's Roman Catholic daily, Novidados, Bishop Jose do Patrocinio Dias of Beja called upon both government and private charity to come to the aid of the poverty-stricken rural workers whose numbers were "not decreasing...
...conflict," he announced that he would bar any clergyman who is a Mason from preaching or ministering to his congregation. At Lambeth Palace it was announced that Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Mason and Archbishop of Canterbury, "does not wish to reply to the article." ¶According to Ecclesia, official publication of Catholic Action in Spain, 353 Spaniards are well along the road to sainthood-among them, 186 priests and monks killed in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). The announcement ended speculation on whether all 7,227 churchmen killed in the civil war would be canonized at once. Explained Ecclesia...
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...