The Christian civilization of very Christian Spain is today in the solitary hands of a Benedictine monk of 46 years, Santiago Cantera, prior of the Santa Cruz Abbey, where Francisco Franco is buried. The monk defends in solitude the Christian burial of the Generalissimo from the lugubrious decision of the left-wing Iberian government to exhume Franco's corpse in 44 years after his death and chase him from his grave. Father Cantera denies authorization to the Spanish state to enter the chapel, desecrate the tomb and push Franco's remains elsewhere. The global left, and our local one, cheers for the macabre twist that the courageous prior calls "satanic". The socialists of Padro Sanchez and the Minister of Justice Dolores Delgado (signatory of the measure), they came to government without popular legitimacy, in the minority, after the crisis that overwhelmed the moderate popular government Mariano Raioj.

And in a country full of problems, with the wound of Catalonia still open, with migrants often driven back without any media noise, the socialist government carries out this political and symbolic act whose pressing relevance and absolute urgency is evident... And not only that. Like necrophobic beasts, full of hatred and death, the Euro-lefts reject with jackal disdain Franco's appreciable choice to bury the fallen in the same Valley, the victims of the Civil War on both sides, francists and anti-francists. I wish we had done it too in Italy, after the civil war, how many hatreds we would have at least diluted.
We did not demand historical revisions from the Spanish socialists, repentance or second thoughts but only a minimal act of humanity and Christian compassion for the dead on all sides, for the elementary law that is valid in every civilization and which can be summarized in one sentence: I was buried sparingly, peace to those who are buried. No, for the gentlemen we must separate the good dead from the bad dead with macabre cadaverous racism, the victims from the killers. Even if there were victims and murderers on both sides. It would be easy to talk about how many atrocious massacres of innocents the anti-Franco communists committed: rapes and massacres of nuns and religious, unarmed family members of Phalangists; the communists even massacred many anarchist fighters on their own side. Even some anti-fascist partisans went to Spain to fight against Franco, they recoiled in disgust. George Orwell, the author of Animal Farm and ours Randolfo Pacciardi, republican fighter; they went to anti-fascists but returned fiercely anti-communists from Spain. E Simone Weil, workerist philosopher, he told George Bernanos with horror, of a Phalangist boy from 14 years that for not wanting to renounce his choice he was killed mercilessly by anti-fascists, after leaving him one night to deny his faith. But the intrepid and trembling boy preferred to die.
Let's be clear, the Franco regime It was an authoritarian regime, catholic-military, national-paternalist, a bit like Salazar in Portugal. The Church and its longa manus mattered a lot, l'Opus day, in Francoist Spain. But that repressive regime did not build walls to prevent people from fleeing Spain, as happened instead in the communist regimes; you could leave Spain. Some anti-Franco intellectuals in fact chose the path of exile with dignity: one for all, the philosopher Maria Zambrano who came to live in Italy. But there were also intellectuals who fled communism and went to live in Franco's Spain: I'll mention one more among many, the Romanian writer Vintila Horia, God's author was born in exile. Franco was not a fascist, but authoritarian and patriot; the fascists, semmai, they were with Jose Antonio, with the Falange, whom Franco marginalized from power for their national-revolutionary program.
But let's not forget one thing above all: like it or not, but Franco's dictatorship saved Spain, Europe and the West from a communist and Stalinist dictatorship that was looming with the victory of the "reds". And that would have revived communism in Europe and the desire of the brother communist parties to reunite with the one that at the time, even the Italian communists, they hailed as the Father of the people: Stalin and his Soviet Union. And not only that: the reviled Franco also saved Spain from Hitler because he refused to enter the war at his side, as unfortunately Mussolini's Italy did. And therefore he helped save Europe from Hitler. All this certainly does not exonerate him from the guilt of having established a dictatorship, albeit tempered by Catholicism. But upon his death, by his express will, Constitutional Monarchy was restored in Spain with Juan Carlos and Parliamentary Democracy was reactivated.
But think, remember, historicizing doesn't count for those who want to damn Franco's remains even in death and chase him from his tomb, to separate the Good Dead from the Bad Dead. But the people, the town, Spain today, will ever be able to share this anachronistic and cruel act, so ferocious and demented, to rage over a corpse? A democratic and socialist state that commits corpse shame: but does the European court have eyes for this lugubrious infamy or does it only deal with what offends progressive dogmatics?
MV, The Truth 4 January 2019
source – http://www.marcelloveneziani.com/articoli/un-monaco-contro-le-jene/