R. is a young priest practicing in a coastal city of Almeria. It is a thriving residential, middle-upper middle class. Young and dynamic population, in an oasis of tranquility. What you would call a comfortable destination.
Since leaving the seminary has dressed in his cassock, and had never felt any rejection of it. With a grin tells me that everyone thinks, mistakenly, that is Opus. However, three years ago, R. feel uncomfortable. Are increasingly frequent occasions when receiving abuse when he walks down the street. The cassock gave him away. R. is perplexed.
R. is a priest and open dialogue. They tell me that his parish have not been hit with divorce at the time of communion or baptize their children. Teaches at a school in a nearby town where you deal with Muslims, with whom he gets along very well. Try to understand where this hatred sees around him. A hatred that reached alarming levels when later broke a Mercedes in the courtyard of his parish. Its two occupants was advised that he had very little time to continue wearing the cassock. Emulating
, perhaps inadvertently, Muñoz Seca, told them they could take his life, but not his love for Jesus Christ. If one day become these fanatics do not find any resistance in R.
The case of R. is not unique. PP militants and headquarters have been attacked in Spain. I myself have been publicly humiliated and threatened while putting posters of a concentration of AVT and Black Pawns. Not to mention the treatment received by the Police shoemakers, identifying one of these concentrations as criminal suspects. At least there was no illegal detention.
not say anything to R., but the key story is summed up in 4 keywords: " three years " . What happened three years ago that killed our peace and brought us fear? Zapatero arrived. And with it, the will left to submit to the half of Spain that do not share millstones.
Rajoy accused Zapatero of scaring people. Not true. Many people are already scared not to tell us Rajoy. And no need for a cassock.
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