Cardinal Rouco: "Sometimes you need to know to forget" The exhumations of mass graves damaged "social harmony", argued Bishop

The cardinal archbishop of Madrid, Antonio Maria Rouco, said yesterday that "it is sometimes necessary to forget," in reference to the controversial development of the so-called Law of Historical Memory, which the bishops have execrable from the beginning. Rouco equated concern about this law in society with the now caused by the economic crisis. He said that in his first speech before the plenary of the Conference of Bishops, chaired for the second time since last March. The cardinal said such topics as "two of the concerns that they feel at this moment in society." Prescribed remedy for its "solidarity and reconciliation." Rouco contends that reconciliation is through neglect. He said on the implementation of the Law of Historical Memory: "There are few who express a justifiable concern about the danger of a deterioration in the serene coexistence and reconciled. The history of Spain has been, unfortunately, marked by tensions over once led to fratricidal clashes. Thank God, the current international situation and national levels is not the same. But it is always necessary to monitor to prevent root attitudes, words, strategies and everything that could fuel a confrontation that could stop being violent. It is necessary to cultivate the spirit of reconciliation, slaughtered and generous, who chaired the social and political life in the years called for the transition to democracy. Sometimes you need to know to forget. Not because of ignorance or cowardice, but under a desire for reconciliation and forgiveness truly responsible and strong. It is what might be called a truly healthy and purification of memory ". Cardinal from Madrid who is sponsoring more enthusiastically the beatification Mass of Catholics killed between 1934 and 1938, years in which the bishops believe that was the greatest religious persecution in history. The Vatican has beatified or canonized and 977 of those victims and announced a month ago that there were 500 people in other portfolio, the total of 10,000 who wants to raise the altars Spanish bishops. Rouco believes, however, that seriously damaged the "social harmony" the desire of others to look into mass graves or in the gutters of Spain remains of their relatives, buried like animals during the Civil War and in the early years of dictatorship Franco, who sponsored the Catholic church and enshrined as a Crusade. Rouco's thesis is that "young people have to release them as soon as possible in the ballast of the past, not charged with old grudges and resentments, but helping to strengthen the will of harmony and friendship." On the economic crisis, the cardinal called "pay attention to the moral responsibilities," referring to the "moral relativism" that has fostered indifference by the service to the common good, the greed of the gain fast and disproportionate and waste and ostentation, privately and publicly.