"And if we qualified the Church as a gang of sexual aggressors?": Moncloa responds to the head of the Spanish bishops

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Clash between the Spanish Church's leadership and the State government amid strong accusations. It all began with a controversial intervention this Thursday by the president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, Luis Argüello, at a summer course of the Pau VI Foundation, when he strongly criticized the state executive led by Pedro Sánchez. Argüello, who is also the archbishop of Valladolid, called for democratic regeneration and warned that "when a state forgets ethics, it becomes a gang of thieves." "And I refer to the evidence," he concluded, alluding to Spanish political current affairs. This angered the Spanish government, which late at night sent a harsh letter to Argüello: "And what if we were to qualify the Church as a gang of sexual aggressors?" he pointed out in the letter signed by the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, and reported by Efe.