History of Persecutions By Christians - The Mid-20th Century Spanish Model

The Mid-20th Century Spanish Model

As of the mid-20th century, an example of Catholic church-state relations was the Catholic situation in Franco's Spain, where under the National Catholicism doctrine the Catholic Church:

• was officially recognized and protected by the state,
• had substantial control over social policy, and
• had this relationship explicitly set out in a Concordat.

It had long been the policy of the Catholic Church to support toleration of competing religions under such a scheme, but to support legal restrictions on attempts to convert Catholics to those religions, under the motto that "error has no rights".