• The Catholic Church in Spain—Why the Crisis?
    Awake!—1990 | March 8

    • In the face of this alarming situation, the Spanish bishops published in 1985 an extraordinary series of confessions. Among other things, they admitted:

      “We have veiled rather than revealed

      the true face of God.”

      “Perhaps we have enchained

      the Word of God.”

      “Not all of us have explained

      the undiluted message of Jesus.”

      “We have trusted little in God and too much

      in the powers of this world.”a

  • The Catholic Church in Spain—Why the Crisis?
    Awake!—1990 | March 8

    • a Another confession was made at a joint assembly of priests and bishops in 1971. Although not passed by the required two-​thirds majority, more than half endorsed this statement: “We humbly recognize and ask pardon that we did not know how, when it was necessary, to be true ‘ministers of reconciliation’ in the midst of our people torn by a fratricidal war.”