Franco and the Catholic church

[Barentsz]

As a side note...Many catholic priests chose the side of the republicans and paid dearly for it... (read: Antony Beevor, the battle for Spain) . Having said that, the catholic church often supported regimes when it assured their own position..so the article does not surprise me at all...

[lucy]

Orthodox church in the Soviet Union (and now Russia), Belarus or Serbia, catholic church in Croatia: They all did and still do the same.
Churches are suckers for power. If you're in power, they kiss your ass.

And if a local church dares to do otherwise, like the liberation theologists did in Latin America, you can bet your ass that they'll be put in line by the church's hierarchy asap.

One of the many, many, many reasons why each and ever church shoulda been abolished yesterday rather than today.