Word: tarancon
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Smaller powers are more likely to provide viable dark-horse candidates. Despite his age, 73, and his Shermanesque talk of refusing election, Austria's Franz Cardinal König remains a possibility. Spain's Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancon, 71, Archbishop of Madrid, has won a reputation as a courageous, liberalizing leader who declined to officiate at Franco's funeral but pointedly helped to crown King Juan Carlos. In a stalemate, the "Iberian bloc"-Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American votes-could swing behind him. A favorite of many in Latin America and elsewhere is Brazil...
...some bishops retain strong links with the Bunker and the church remembers its deep involvement with the Franco regime, priests and even nuns openly flaunt leftist sympathies. No action was taken against some 20 priests who ran as candidates in the election (three won), despite Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancon's admonition that the church should stay above the political struggle. In any case, the church has a spiritual struggle on its hands?against "indifferentism." According to one recent poll, only 48% of adult Spaniards consider themselves practicing Catholics...
Another erstwhile pillar of the Franco state now in opposition is the Catholic church. Under the "red Cardinal" Tarancon, the ecclesiastical hierarchy preaches social justice and the separation of church and state, paving the way for a republic. The lay Catholic association Opus Dei, whose technocrats engineered Spain's economic growth, leads the forces seeking political liberalization and entrance into the Common Market...
...reconciliation . . . [in] a civil war among brothers"). In December, the church's National Commission on Justice and Peace attacked the maintenance of public order by "force and repression." In January, when he took office as the new Archbishop of Madrid-Alcala, Spain's Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancon, 64-himself the son of a working-class family-pointedly pledged that he was the "spokesman for those who have no voice to defend their legitimate aspirations-the poor...
...appointment or advancement of more than 30 Spanish bishops, the majority of them liberals. Franco, yielding to his progressive man in the Vatican (and some sympathizers in his ministries), accepted the choices. The appointees include nearly all of Spain's leading episcopal reformers today, among them Cardinal Tarancon. In all, two-thirds of Spanish churchmen may now be considered reformist...
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