Last updated on January 23rd, 2020 at 09:34 am<\/p>\n
VALENCIA, Spain \u2014 Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera of\nValencia warned his flock, in wake of last November\u2019s elections, that \u201cMarxist\ncommunism\u2026 has been reborn and is certain to govern Spain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ominous pronouncement was made in a January 11 letter\nposted to the website of the Archdiocese of Valencia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Canizares wrote that the coalition government elected in\nNovember was, in his estimation, \u201can attempt to make Spain stop being Spain\u201d\nand to mimic the Marxist policies employed in certain Latin American countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spain\u2019s new Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez (of the Spanish\nSocialist Workers\u2019 Party), took office a few days before Canizares\u2019 letter was\npublished, forming a government coalition with a far-left minority party called\n\u201cUnidas Podemos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to pledging to exclude religion from schools in\nSpain, Sanchez has also said he will legalize euthanasia, deploy comprehensive\nsex education programs, and nationalize property that he says has been\n“wrongly registered” to the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Canizares was not the only member of the Spanish Bishops\nConference to sound the alarm about the new government: Archbishop Jesus Sanz\nMontes of Oviedo, in a letter on his own Archdiocese\u2019s website, said Spain was\nentering a \u201cgrave moment\u201d in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both Archbishops called on Catholics in Spain to pray for\ntheir country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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