CHURCH AND STATE
CONFLICT IN SPAIN DECREES RESENTED PROTEST BY THE POPE INSTRUCTIONS TO CLERGY By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received June 4, 5.5 p.m.) MADRID, June 3 After a week's delay, during which it was thought the Government was hesitating, the President, Don Zamora, himself a devout Roman Catholic, has signed a decree regulating religious orders and closing Catholic schools. As a sequel all the Spanish Archbishops have forbidden Catholic children to attend secular schools under penalty of excommunication. The bishops also have sent a message to the President protesting against the grave injury to the Church and discourtesy to the Popo, whose attitude in relation to Don Zamora is the subject of excited speculation. A message from Rome states that the Pope in an encyclical denounces the Spanish law decreeing the separation of the Church from the State, also the Religious Orders Bill which previously he declared was a masterpiece of iniquity against God. Tho Pope now urges the Spanish clergy to use all means to further religious instruction and all the faithful to unite to defend the faith.
Nevertheless, the Pope hints at a possibility of co-operation between the Church and the Government.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21509, 5 June 1933, Page 9
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