Jesuit who helped Spain’s transition to democracy and encouraged the separation of Church and State
The Jesuit José María Patino, who died one day before his ninetieth birthday, played a key role in distancing the Spanish Church from the Franco regime and helped pave the way for a return to democracy.The son of modest and politically liberal schoolteachers, Patino was born and spent his early years in Lumbrales, a small village near the old university city of Salamanca. He studied classical philosophy in Salamanca after graduating from the Jesuit Pontifical University of Comillas in Madrid. He went on to study theology at Sankt Jörgen, Frankfurt, and obtained a doctorate at the Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained a priest in 1957 and was call
07 May 2015, The Tablet
José María Patino
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