Father Santiago Cantera OSB, former Prior of the Abbey of the Valley of the Fallen, confirmed in a statement on 10 April that he had been forced to leave. Key sentence: "Although all that I live with my community has been imposed on us, we receive it with a supernatural gaze and with the peace that the world is not able to give, but that only God can give". He will accept the situation as "an opportunity that God will use to give me a time of physical and spiritual rest and spiritual retreat, which I really needed and which will allow me to grow internally and in my attachment to the good God of love and mercy". The Socialist Spanish regime - with the collaboration of Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and the unanimous Spanish bishops - is going to "re-signify" the site. The government's secularisation plans include the secularisation of the Basilica and the departure of the Benedictine monks. The Socialists want a space for "educational" and "democratic" reflection. …More