Luckily, I'm not the only one, but many people agree with me and we are scandalized together when we see public money going to the bottom of the ecclesiastical coffers. How long will this revolutionary tax last, which does not cease even in the midst of the crisis?
Now we talk about the crisis of people, the family or social crisis that we live, for example, in the Canary Islands. And of course, there is no better example. Surely due to a colonial status that has been adapting to the times, but has lasted for more than 500 years, placing the Canary Islands at the head of the Spanish State and Europe, if we compare. At the head in poverty, in lower salaries, in unemployment, in precarious employment, in percentage of evictions and, most likely, also in the level of suicides and famine. As hard as it may seem to the most affluent, this can be verified in any statistic, it is not fiction: "The ultraperipheral (colony) of the Canary Islands at the head in human exploitation".
As a contradiction, we resume, public money is generously going to a lost fund to restore the heritage of the Catholic Church. And not a small amount of money, as is the case of the Cathedral of La Laguna, which has taken thousands and thousands of euros from the different institutions. Or, what was announced last month by the Cabildo and the La Laguna City Council, regarding "investments" of the Island Institution of 238,000 euros for the fourth phase of the rehabilitation of the Convent of Santa Catalina de Siena and 254,000 euros for the second phase of the Church of Santo Domingo de Guzmán. Now let's ask ourselves, with half a million euros, how many children could be fed in the summer?
I do not want to go into the properties that the Catholic Church has registered, without even paying taxes and completely abandoned. While outside the churches the deficiencies and misery are felt more than ever today.
For me, whoever governs subjected to paying the richest, to face this "revolutionary tax" with public money does not do it for the People. When they really want to change the situation, they will have to do it just the opposite, distributing what those who have too much have among those who have nothing. Although, now that I think about it, shouldn't the Catholic Church be in that line? Yes, but it is naive to think that it is that way, when they know that every day all people have to eat. Therefore, I interpret that every day that passes they are little less than guilty, or at least accomplices of those who are not able to break a bread, to satisfy the hunger of a fellow human being.
Elections are approaching. It is time to clarify future plans of the different political options. To make promises to break them, as the PP has done or as the PSOE did further back, to feed the Canarian national Catholicism of CC. Or to get serious and favor that society begins to change peacefully. Because in the face of so much social violence, on the part of the institutions and their accomplices, the "perfect storm" can be propitiated. You don't have to be a seer to foresee it, but very cruel to pretend that this continues the same.
Pedro M. González Cánovas, member of Canarian Nationalist Alternative
