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Diary and Memories of Doctor & Monsignor Rafael Rodríguez Guillén

Rafael Rodríguez Guillén was born in Seville Spain on March 28 1927
He studied Humanities, Philosophy and theology in Spain and in the United
states. Fellow of Queen College and Hunter College U.S.A. , U.P.R. and
Institute of Hispanic Culture in Spain and Puerto Rico.

He graduated with outstanding grades as a Doctor in Educational Sciences in
the University Complutense of Madrid and as Doctor in Philosophy and Letters
from the Pontificial University of Comillas in Madrid in 1981. Monsignor,
Master In Divinity, Investigator and Vaticanist Historian.

When I was twelve years old, I was interned in the seminary for priests in
the Capital of Andalusia, Seville, during a difficult epoch at the end of the
Spanish Civil War, in which more than two million Spaniards died, were
dispossessed, or banished. And when the want of provisions and food supplies
was imposed with the arrival of the new dictatorship, the Catholic church
took advantage of the opportunity to open hundreds of seminaries and convents
allied to the plans of the Vatican and the red beret falangists of Franco’s
military conquerors. It began a forty year drama in which I was a witness of
the religious, political, and social changes made in Spain by National
Catholicism or the Political State of the Vatican and its world power.
The changes were exaggerated and prejudicial for Christianity, that they
converted the Catholic church into an institution more political than
religious. Roman Catholicism became the greatest political force in Europe,
and took over education, not only founding seminaries and universities and
monasteries, but also controlling public teachings and the universities
themselves.

Thousands of scholarships and monetary helps existed for all them that
wanted to enter a seminary; and help was offered to both fathers and the poor
to remedy the poverty that the Spanish Civil War brought to so many forsaken
homes. I was a victim who was brainwashed into joining the seminary at age
twelve, and I suffered an inhumane and draconian discipline, which can
canonically and according to the Council of Trent occupy the sacerdotal
formation: for years of humanities, three years of philosophies, four years of
theology, and one year of dioconate. I have to confess that they were years
which elapsed in my life, without meaning, without ever having had the
opportunity to reflect if I or my relatives, who were obliged to have a son
who would elevate them socially and bring them out of their poverty, had the
true vocation of priesthood. I must acknowledge that I received an extensive
education that I would never have received owing to the poverty of my
relatives. I had the valor to resist those twelve years, the most handsome of
my life as a youth in puberty: a childhood changed by monastic rules,
transcendental meditations, sacrifices and the human needs which I had to
bear. They brainwashed me with a scholastic philosophy which made me believe
I was a divine or supernatural being with a divine powers of opening and
closing the gates of heaven. All a big lie! A pseudochristianity called
Catholicism, which is directed from the Vatican by an antichrist.

 

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