The Bishop of Cordoba has said that an alliance of Islamists and leftists “want to reverse the Reconquista” by taking the Spanish city’s famous mosque-turned-cathedral away from the control of the Catholic Church.
Bishop Demetrio Fernández González said: “For eight centuries we have lived peacefully with the cathedral in Catholic hands,” referring to the recapture of the city – and its cathedral – from the Moors in 1236. “But right now, the idea the Muslims have had, this dream that they’ve had to somehow take back the cathedral, is being helped by the political left. So it is a kind of alliance coming in from the left.
“The politicians realise that the cathedral is the property of the Church, but what they would like is for it to become public property. So it would be a type of expropriation.” He was speaking at a meeting in Washington DC, organised by the Center for Religious Freedom of the Hudson Institute.
Bishop Fernández added that sharing the cathedral with Muslims would not be possible, “neither for the Catholics nor for the Muslims”.
A church dedicated to St Vincent of Saragossa occupied the site and was razed by the Moors in 711.
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