The Catholic Church doesn't think Spain needs a new law expanding freedom of religion and increasing the separation of Church and State. Why would they? Catholicism is the State religion in Spain. The Church there has many prerogatives, pays no taxes on its extensive holdings and enjoys exorbitant subsidies directly from the government treasury.
Catholicism was once strong and universal in Spain. Few attend to the Church anymore, mainly the elderly. Most Spanish despise the Catholic Church for its close collaboration with the hated Caudillo, Francisco Franco, during an extended, bloody civil war, followed by forty years of brutal totalitarian rule, while the rest of Western Europe enjoyed a prosperous, post war renaissance.
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