"(T)he Spanish Civil War witnessed the “most extensive and violent persecution of Catholicism in Western history, in some way even more intense than that of the French Revolution.”
“More than 6,800 Catholic clergy were slaughtered, including 13 bishops, more than 2,360 monks and friars, 4,172 diocesan priests and seminarians, as well as 283 nuns. Thousands of churches were destroyed.
Most of the intense killing occurred in the first six months of the conflict, but by the end of the war about 20% of the nation’s Catholic clergy was dead."
Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/spanish-civil-war-75-years-later/#ixzz1T8UJgtI1
Most of what the communists wanted to do in Spain in 1936 is being done now under the Socialist government. The writers of the article included here fail to mention the role of Germany in the war, in all fairness.
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