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Spain’s Law of Democratic Memory would condemn the regime of Francisco Franco and create a national DNA bank to help search for the disappeared.

Spain’s lower house of parliament has approved a new historical memory law that declares illegal the regime of former dictator Gen. Francisco Franco and makes the central government responsible for the recovery of the bodies of tens of thousands of people missing from the Spanish Civil War and dictatorship.

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s lower house of parliament has approved a new historical memory law that declares illegal the regime of former dictator Gen. Francisco Franco and makes the central government responsible for the recovery of the bodies of tens of thousands of people missing from the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship.

Félix Bolaños—a leading Spanish government official who serves as Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Democratic Memory, as well as Secretary-General of the Office of the Prime Minister—met for 50 minutes with Pope Francis on June 13, and pressed him to urge the Spanish bishops to cooperate with a government inquiry into the sexual abuse of minors.

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