la iglesia

What is it about the church (por lo menos la iglesia católica)? It always seems conflicted, if not self-admittedly, its actions seem to contradict the practices it preaches. We definitely see this in Réquiem in the character Mosén Millán. The interesting thing is, many of us had a hard time deciding whether MM is definitively uno de los buenos o uno de los malos, which I think is true about the church as a whole. The church can do a lot of good for a lot of people, but it can also do a lot of bad (and often times get away with it). I think MM is a fine example of a man who is comfortable in his position because the alliance between the church and the state protects him. Unlike Paco, MM is not a martyr in any sense. MM does not take risks and ignores answering any inquiries that might question the church's legitimacy (Why do bad things happen to good people?). The sad thing is that the Spanish civil war is not the first time that the church is hypocritical. Another example that has always bothered me a lot was the Spanish conquest of the Americas, that was in part, or so they "say", with the purpose of bringing Catholicism to all of the barbaric indigenous peoples of the Americas. Of course, the real goal was to build an empire, but what better way to justify ones actions than by claiming that you are saving the souls oh the inhabitants of the land by forcing them to covert to Catholicism. I'm not trying to say that Catholicism is bad, I am simply noting instances in which the church goes against the word that it preaches. After all, we are all just humans.