It was complicated, and pretty hard for a Catholic not to side with Franco in the 30s and 40s.
However, the Church didn’t just dump the idea of a Christian state, as you can’t just decide that a pile of documents and centuries of teaching are just wrong because it doesn’t feel groovy anymore. The Church of St Louis, St Edward the Confessor and Bl Karl is at the least sympathetic to an explicitly Catholic monarchy.
It was complicated, and pretty hard for a Catholic not to side with Franco in the 30s and 40s.
However, the Church didn’t just dump the idea of a Christian state, as you can’t just decide that a pile of documents and centuries of teaching are just wrong because it doesn’t feel groovy anymore. The Church of St Louis, St Edward the Confessor and Bl Karl is at the least sympathetic to an explicitly Catholic monarchy.