Church-State struggles in the Spanish democratic transition

Abstract

Understanding this moment of the Spanish transition period within the Church, as a catalyst for a prepared change, makes us look to the Second Vatican Council II - the Dignitatis humanae declaration - where the Catholic Church passed from the confessional state, as Model, to the proclamation of religious freedom. Propitiated by this council and by figures such as those of Cardinal Tarancón who was not worried about the non-denominational state but of religious freedom, he was part of public liberties. The Church played an important role in this path towards democracy, with an outstanding contribution to reconciliation and the restoration of rights and freedoms. According to history, this is a chapter that has not been closed yet, as if the waves of these events continued -becoming less and less- giving reasons for tension, discussion (too heated) and questioning how they were carried out, and how are those actions of the Spanish transition updated. Something makes us intuit that everything is not well done (something very human) and that revisionism is not always made to grow.