ETA, with the Church they have not encountered

The same thing happens to the Basque Church regarding terrorism as it happens to the parish priest of the joke with sin: it is not partisan.

The matter has come up again at the premiere of

in which he interviews the priest of Lemona,

for seven long, very long minutes

.

You had no idea how much infamy you can do in seven minutes.

I'll be brief, just two examples.

He does not know what to expect in the event of an attack: "on the one hand you are glad that ... he gets what he deserves, and on the other, it is not right."

That is not terrorism "it is a war between sides, between one nation and another nation."

The diocese has made his speech ugly and has separated him from all ecclesiastical offices, less is nothing, but there is much precedent.

The Basque Church needs a pain of contrition for its long history of collusion.

At the base and in the hierarchy.

In April 1969, the terrorist

, was fleeing wounded from the shooting at the Artecalle safe house where

was detained

.

He got into a taxi and, before the taxi driver,

, killed him with four shots.

He was helped to escape by the priest of Orozco and two other priests who dressed him in cassocks and collars and made him tonsure to camouflage him.

In 1979, the Capuchin friar

assassinated the civil guard Félix de Diego,

companion on

the day of ETA's baptism of fire, on June 7, 1968. In March 2006, after completing his sentence, the friar explained himself in

: "In a fight like ours there is no room for repentance ... In the same circumstances I would enter ETA again."

On October 4, 1980, the parish priest of Salvatierra,

, informed a command of the three civil guards that they were going to regulate a children's cycling race:

and

.

They were riddled with shots.

, badly injured, tried to take refuge under a car, but some neighbors alerted the command: "There is one, there is one."

They finished him off on the ground.

In May 2002, a joint pastoral of the three Basque bishops,

rejected the outlawing of Batasuna and predicted "dire consequences" if such occurred.

Three prophets.

The Basque bishops denied mercy to the victims, in strict application of the doctrine that

explained to

"Where is it written that all children are to be loved equally?"

On January 20, 1996, Setién starred in a memorable photo.

The businessman

had been kidnapped by ETA for 257 days, his relatives gathered daily with a placard on the Good Shepherd stairs and the bishop passed in front of them without looking at them.

Asked about the subject, the bishop replied: "... I did not stop, but I made gestures to somehow express my relationship with them ... Perhaps it would have been easier to turn around and not pass by. But it didn't seem like the right thing to do either. "

In February 1992, the Archpriest of Irún,

, gave the keys to the church to

and

, two terrorists who had been fleeing from Santander where they had murdered three people:

,

and

.

The Basque Church did not accept holding specific funerals for the victims of terrorism.

denied the Buen Pastor Cathedral for the funeral of

.

At the most, add those who died from the most varied causes, gunshots, limpet bomb, traffic or pneumonia and ask for a prayer for all of them, in the assurance that God will recognize his own.

It has been fifty years of misery, but throughout this half century the terrorists can paraphrase Don Quixote's expression: They, the Church, have not encountered.

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