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...Church, the dramatic increase in Spain's divorce rate underlines the moral threat it perceives from Zapatero's government. At a December rally in Madrid to "defend the Christian family," ? Cardinal Augustín ? García-Gasco lambasted Socialist initiatives, ? saying, "The culture of radical laicism ? leads to nothing but despair along the road of ? abortion and express divorce." Benigno Blanco, president of the Spanish Forum for the Family, agrees: "The reform has transformed the marriage contract into trash. It's banalized marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Till Divorce Do Us Part | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...dramatic increase in divorces underlines the threat posed by the Socialist government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. At a December rally in Madrid to "defend the Christian family," Cardinal Augustín García-Gasco lambasted Socialist initiatives, saying, "The culture of radical laicism... leads to nothing but despair along the road of abortion and 'express divorce.'" Benigno Blanco, president of the Spanish Forum for the Family, agrees. "The reform has transformed the marriage contract into trash," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Spain Became Splitsville | 2/26/2008 | See Source »

Said Vatan's Editor Ahmet Emin Yalman, Menderes' powerful press backer in two elections: "Laicism is one of the principal cornerstones of modern Turkey. To make concessions on this subject for political reasons is an action not befitting a head of government." Istanbul's Cumhuriyet, another past supporter of Menderes, denounced any plan to "touch the foundation pillar of the Ataturk era." The opposition Republicans and the new Freedom Party blasted Menderes' pronouncement as "unconstitutional" and conceived in failure. Though only last month the government had shut up two newspapers for saying less. Menderes made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Democratic Heresy | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...Established by Pope Pius XI to combat "the great modern heresy of laicism [which] refuses to recognize the rights of God and His Christ over persons and peoples and organizes the lives of individuals, families and society itself, as though God did not exist. This laicism ruins society. ... It begets jealousy between individuals, hatred between classes and rivalry between nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Calculated Conciliation | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...against this law, asserting that it can never be appealed to against the imprescriptible rights of the Church. . . . We condemn the principle of suppression of the Church which the State already has sanctioned in the new Constitution as the most grievous error and the most lamentable result of the laicism or of the apostasy of present-day society which aims at separating itself from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Excommunicated | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

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