CHURCH DISPUTE IN SPAIN

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1931, Page 7

CHURCH DISPUTE IN SPAIN

MEASURES SHOCK VATICAN 'WOUNDED BUT NOT HOSTILE’ EDUCATION TO CONTINUE LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Madrid, Oct. 15. “The Church may be wounded but it ia never hostile,” declared the Papal Nuncio, Cardinal Tiideschini, in an interview with the Premier, Senor Azana, in which it is hoped that the dispute between the 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 Cabinet deleted from the . Budget the teaching and cultural grant to the Church. A Rome message states that authoritative circles 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 property. The Roman Catholic Press declares that the ridiculous expulsion of Jesuits cannot be allowed, says the Madrid correspondent of The Times* “The decision against religious education is a 'barbarous crime against culture,” the Press adds. The Cortes passed a clause permitting liberty of conscience and the free practice of religion but suppressing Holy Week ceremonies at Seville and Pillar Week at Saratoga, famous throughout the Roman Catholic world.