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Church and State in Spain

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 22, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 38.

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Church and State in Spain

THE proposal to grant the most elementary rights to Protestant worshipers in Spain, and to regulate and tax certain manufacturing religious orders, has raised such a storm about the ears of the Spanish cabinet that one would think they were proposing to deny the right of the Catholic Church to exist. Yet it is said:—
The Spanish government pays for the support of the Roman Catholic clergy, out of the general revenues of the nation, about eight million dollars annually, besides other large sums paid the church for other purposes. Besides this direct payment there are indirect contributions, amounting in the aggregate to large sums.