CHURCH AND STATE
SPANISH CONTROVERSY FORFEITURE DECREE. CHURCH DISCLAIMS HOSTILITY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) MADRID, October 15. “The Church may be wounded, but it is never hostile,’ ’ declared the Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Tedeschini, in an interview with the new Prime Minister, Senor Azana, in which it is hoped the relations between Church and State will be satisfactorily solved.
The new Cabinet has issued a decree forbidding religious orders to abandon the work of teaching, under penalty of forfeiture of property. Simultaneously the Cabinet deleted from the Budget the teaching and cultural grant to the Church.
Authoritative circles in Rome are discussing the possibility of a rupture between the Vatican and Spain if further anti-church measures are adopted. The Vatican is shocked at the unexpected passage of the article permitting the dissolution of religious bodies and the confiscation of their property.
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Northern Advocate, 16 October 1931, Page 5
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