Madrid, Spain, Mar 12, 2008 / 16:13 pm
The Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain, Cardinal Antonio Canizares, said this week the Church would continue defending “the values that are in danger” and, concretely, would fight “against the widening of the law on abortion and against euthanasia.”
Canizares made his statements in an interview with the Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera, two days after the Socialist party in Spain carried the day in the country’s general elections.
“We don’t have anything to be sorry over,” as it would be “a betrayal if we renounced defending life, from conception to natural death,” he said in response to a question about the Church’s position on recent legislation.
“We are not against democracy, we are for it,” he said. Whoever denies the right to life is against democracy and leads society towards disaster,” the cardinal stated, warning that at this time, “a cultural revolution is taking place not only in Spain but throughout the West,” in which “the dictatorship of relativism” is reigning, which was denounced by Benedict XVI at the outset of his pontificate.