SPAIN: Mischief Unto Mother Church
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Ex-President Zamora announced that he will campaign for peaceful revision of Article III and Article XXIV in harmony with "Catholic ideas of religious liberty." Meanwhile the National Assembly, almost unnoticed by the World Press, wrote into Spain's constitution a most staggering reform: Divorce by mutual consent.
Hitherto there has been no divorce in Catholic Spain, only annullments adjudicated by the Vatican on grounds difficult to prove. The divorce clause written by the National Assembly into the Constitution last week should make divorce almost as easy in Spain as in Russia. Text:
"Matrimony is founded upon an equality of right for both sexes and can be dissolved for just cause or by mutual con-sent."
* Nearly all literate Spaniards (60% of the population), were taught by priests and nuns to read.
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