Papal Pope
Spain Holds Fast On Secular Values
Following trips to Malta and the UK that dredged up their own controversies this year, Pope Benedict XVI has been touring Spain this month and stepping on the usual toes, criticising the state’s reforms on gay marriage, abortion and divorce. But foreigners concerned that the one-time catholic stronghold may become influenced by the Vatican’s harsher messages can keep looking for house insurance Spain has defended its policies and gently reminded the 83-year-old Pope that Spain is a secular society.
The Pope described the current wave of legalisations and relaxations as ‘aggressive secularism’. Spanish law has recently passed applied more liberal values to Gay weddings, abortion and divorce, and has also eliminated compulsory religious education, all moves that the Pope has compared with the politics of 1930s Spain. The media in Spain weren’t particularly thrilled by the Pope’s comparison which was intended to recall the formation of the anti-clerical Second Spanish Republic rather than the start of the 25-year Nazi-sponsored fascist dictatorship of the Pro-Catholic General Franco. Many commentators felt the insensitivity of the comparison, and some have suggest the pope is one second home insurance policy short of a holiday home.
The Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero largely avoided the Pope during his visit, choosing instead to visit Spanish troops in Afghanistan. Meeting the Pope for a handshake at Barcelona airport at the end of his trip, he restated the country’s ‘smooth relationship’ with the Vatican. The church is massively important to the Spanish people: the majority declare themselves Catholic even if actual attendance is down to 20%. But Zapatero was keen to restate that the Spanish constitution ‘guarantees the freedom of all’.
Zapatero continues to make Spain a more secular society, thus making it appealing to the wider European community. There can be little surprise in a sense, because Spain relies so heavily on tourism and the international markets, its domestic economy weakened by problems with the property market. But foreign property buyers and investors will doubtlessly only profit from Spain’s problems, with many bargains on properties and insurance for holiday homes as a result.
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