Pedro Cantero and the spanish Catholic Church after Council Vatican II

Abstract

Council Vatican II lived through the Catholic Spanish Church during the years immediately later to the Council a process of important change through that the hierarchy lived, in some cases, worried. This was the case of Pedro Cantero Cuadrado, Archbishop of Saragossa, a man who had developed hischurch trajectory from the conviction of the necessary collaboration with Franco's Regime in the measurement that this one was guaranteeing, for example,the catholic unit of the nation. The present article is centred, in that sense, on areport that Cantero made come to the Holy See office in the year 1972 and where it was reflecting the main points of conflict both in the bosom of the Church andin his relation with the political power, showing a sincere worry for a new churchreality that he was perceiving as frankly uncertain.