Now, what the Catholic Church (the Episcopal Conference, in fact) has said is that Catholics should give their vote to parties that
respect their principles as Catholics. Considering the on-going open hostility and threats of the Socialist Government (be it direct or through gangsters) against the Church in these four years, I think that the bishops have been extremely moderated.
What's most significant is that the Socialists have not said a word about the open support of the leader of the Muslims in Spain (Junta Islámica), who has actually demanded Muslims to support and to vote for parties that favour Islam, like PSOE (Socialists) and IU/EU (Communists).
It should not be forgotten that this Socialist central government as well as the Socialist autonomous government in Catalonia, are in office with the support of ERC (the independentist Republican Left of Catalonia) and IU/EU (the Communists). This is exactly the coalition that brought about the persecutions that provoked the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
So that things are a little more clear, we are talking of: burning of convents and churches, rape, torture and assassination of nuns and priests and even of their corpses after being dead, or of believers, detention and shot-in-the-back of elected politicians, and so on.
Gnist, if you are trying to understand what's going on in Spain, I suggest that you look into what's called "the myth of the two spains" (or without "the myth".. in fact I don't know why some people would call it "a myth"). But be warned that it goes back well beyond the years mentioned.
Little Spaniard who is coming
Into the world, God helps you.
One of the Two Spains
Will freeze your heart.
A rough translation of the verses of Antonio Machado. He was in the Republican side, while his brother Manuel Machado, also a poet, was in the National side. (It should be noticed that Antonio Machado was
not a Socialist like the Socialists pretend, but a Liberal.)
This division is the story of many families in Spain. Many. Probably more than not. There is also a "Third Spain", which is often silenced.
If you want to try to understand our idiosincracy, I wish you good luck with it.
p.s. The so-called "Civil War" (aka "National Crusade", officially acknowledged as such by The Church) is but one of many civil wars in Spain, throughout history.