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From 8 Beatified As Martyrs at Vatican Mass:
On this topic, here is an informative article that tackles the Leftist mythologizing of the Spanish Republican cause: "But Today the Struggle": Spain and the Intellectuals.
Most writers and intellectuals, like George Orwell, W.H. Auden, and Ernest Hemingway, sided with the Republicans. Evelyn Waugh was one of the few who supported the Nationalists. Aldous Huxley and T.S. Eliot refused to take sides. Georges Bernanos and Simone Weil found themselves on opposite sides, the former with the Nationalists the latter with the Republicans, but the Catholic Barnanos and Catholic-influenced Weil had the rare intellectual honesty to admit to and denounce the atrocities of their chosen side,
From 8 Beatified As Martyrs at Vatican Mass:
All eight were killed in 1936, in the opening days of Spain's civil war. The Catholic Church claims 4,184 clergy were killed during the war by the government, or Republican, side, which accused the church of backing fascist Gen. Francisco Franco.
On this topic, here is an informative article that tackles the Leftist mythologizing of the Spanish Republican cause: "But Today the Struggle": Spain and the Intellectuals.
Most writers and intellectuals, like George Orwell, W.H. Auden, and Ernest Hemingway, sided with the Republicans. Evelyn Waugh was one of the few who supported the Nationalists. Aldous Huxley and T.S. Eliot refused to take sides. Georges Bernanos and Simone Weil found themselves on opposite sides, the former with the Nationalists the latter with the Republicans, but the Catholic Barnanos and Catholic-influenced Weil had the rare intellectual honesty to admit to and denounce the atrocities of their chosen side,
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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