Catholic Church

Cardenal Rouco, the archbishop of Madrid, declared yesterday that: "A veces es necesario saber olvidar." That was what I was referring to a few posts earlier when I said hypocrisy is funny, but I erased my original post. I wonder why the Catholic Church would like to forget the Civil War and the Dictatorship?

How do we know when we should forget and when we should remember?

Probably better to forget:
-Inquisition
-Crusades
-The Catholic Church supporting the Nationalists and Franco, christening their struggle as another Crusade
-Child Molestation charges
-Church cover-up of child molestations
-Our donations going to pay the legal bills and financial settlements from these child molestation cases
-Homosexual priests sleeping with each other and covering it up, using it as leverage to cover-up child molestation

A veces es necesario saber olvidar.

Sometimes I am really saddened to have been raised in the Catholic Church, which is so out of tune with reality, and to have been so involved in it (altar boy). There are certainly good things that the Church does, like charities, and there are good people that belong to the Church, but the hypocrisy and inability to live up to its teachings and reality and practicality and to treat people equally is shameful.

"La Ley de la Memoria Histórica no me parece necesaria", proclamó ayer el cardenal Antonio María Rouco, arzobispo de Madrid y presidente de la Conferencia Episcopal Española (CEE). Su tesis es que la generación que nació "cuando la Guerra Civil" [Rouco, en el año 1936] no debería "trasladar ese problema a otras generaciones".
---They've also obviously lost their ability to rationally argue too. I guess we should forget slavery than too. Don't want to pass on that legacy to the next generations...and WWII, that'd suck if we had to deal with the consequences of that war, and the Holocaust, forget, don't pass that shit on to your family members who were gassed and their bodies torched, and why keep on remembering the Armenian Holocaust either, because it doesn't affect the next generations of Armenians who had to flee their country and land or face death, how could have possibly affect them, just forget about it...

A veces es necesario saber olvidar
His argument is that reconciliation is needed, and the Ley de Memoria Historica only can cause violence, and violence isn't reconciliation, so it is wrong. So we need to reconcile by forgetting. Just like Jesus did...