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The director of the Legal Service of the Spanish Episcopal Conference has spoken on the issue of religion in the Constitution of 1812

San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM) has inaugurated this afternoon the Congress 'Modern Constitutionalism and Human Rights Protection: The relation of Cadiz', which will take place tomorrow and will feature the participation of prestigious experts related to the subject .

During the opening intervened extraordinary professor of Canon Law and Ecclesiastical State of the UCAM, director of the Chair of Church-State Relations and Human Rights, and Civil Legal Services Director of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, Silverio Nieto Nunez, the president the UCAM, Jose Luis Mendoza, and the rector of the University, Josefina Garcia Lozano.

Silverio Nieto stressed the centenary of the Constitution of Cadiz, and said that "is really the first Spanish Constitution, and represents a milestone in the advancement of fundamental rights."

Similarly, the director of the Civil Legal Service of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, which has provided the first conference of Congress under the title 'The issue of religion in the Constitution of 1812', has been reported about it, "If we look as regulated in Article 12 of the Constitution the religious aspect, today we would call attention. But we must recognize that both the so-called conservatives, as so-called progressives, who were the liberals agreed that Spain then what had to do was fend off the French, "and added that" what was all the constituents sought to unite and declare the Roman Catholic religion as the state religion. Constituents tried not to highlight what divided them but what they united ".

Meanwhile, the president of the UCAM said that "the constitution of 1812 also marked, and not least, the reaffirmation of our heritage and historical tradition, cultural and spiritual, proclaiming in its article 12 the Catholic tradition as the only and true. "

Source: UCAM