Madrid, Spain, Oct 16, 2008 / 17:19 pm
The Church in Asturias in Spain has announced that out respect for the privacy of Catholic families, it will not open the parish archives to the indiscriminate research requested by Judge Baltasar Garzon, who wants to produce a list of those killed during the Spanish Civil War and the post-war years.
Church officials said that access to the parish archives by government officials would constitute “indiscriminate research that could harm the privacy of information protected for over 75 years, according to Church norms.” In addition, some families do not want to make the information about their deceased loved ones public.