"The effective economic repercussions have been immediate, the reactions and commentaries in Europe and Spain, besides being negative, leaves us in great fear," Cañizares wrote Nov. 30 of the pre-agreement.
The cardinal also warned that the ten points of this pre-agreement have "some cultural, anthropological connotations and a vision of reality that go beyond economics and leave or create great concern."
With the pre-agreement, he said, "a cultural change is established or engendered, one way of thinking is imposed, with a vision of man intended to be spread to everyone, the approval of euthanasia, the extension of new rights, gender ideology, radical feminism, bringing up historical memories that foment hatred and aversion."
Cañizares said that the issues present in the pre-agreement "suggest and foresee a deepening and immersion into a very deep crisis above all cultural, but also a political and institutional, a democratic, social, religious crisis about what constitutes Spain in its reality and its very own identity."
He also explained that there is renewed talk of the possibility of a new worldwide economic crisis, "but even more serious will be the cultural and identity crisis, suffered by Spain in the context of the West, with its own connotations, which, if this coalition takes over the national government given what is seen in the 'pre-agreement,' will deepen."
The archbishop of Valencia recalled that we are "immersed in a human crisis that is deep and getting bigger", which is in his view "the most serious of all because it's a crisis of the truth about man and about society," and which is "the crisis of the meaning of life, a human, anthropological, moral crisis and of universal values, a spiritual and social crisis, a crisis in marriages and families."