Spain’s rampant secularisation means that the time has ended when a Spaniard could link the country with a Catholic identity.
Archbishop Luis Argüello, the president of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference – CEE, by its Spanish acronym – made the observations when opening the conference’s 127th plenary assembly this week with a deep analysis of the country’s turn away from Catholicism toward secular liberalism, reports the Catholic News Agency (CNA).
“The time has passed, settled for centuries, when we said: I’m Catholic because I was born in Spain,” Argüello said, noting that the Church can no longer take for granted that Spanish people are converted or initiated into the Catholic faith in the society of today.
