The Rioja has 266 unregistered Church properties of which 130 are temples and complementary dependencies. This has been revealed by the list that the Government has sent to Congress and which includes a total of almost 35 thousand unregistered assets in favor of the Catholic Church from 1998 to 2015.
In La Rioja, the municipality of Ezcaray, which has almost 20 unregistered assets and then there are other curious properties in this list like the Autol castle cemetery or the fronton of the El Cortijo neighborhood in Logroño.
The City Council of Logroño He advances that he will study the assignment to the Church of the Ermita del Cristo and the fronton of El Cortijo. The City Council of the capital emphasizes that this list meets one of the commitments included in the government agreement between Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesia, while analyzing possible inaccuracies in relation to the assets attributed to the Church in Logroño.
Ezcaray It is the municipality with the largest number of properties linked to the Church. There are in total a score of properties among which appear, in its temples, farms and orchards. The mayor of Ezcaray, Gonzalo Abajo, attributes this circumstance to the peculiarity of this municipality, which consists of a main nucleus and seven districts. Each of which has its own parish and, in many cases, the priest’s house. In what it has shown its disagreement is with the attribution to the church of the hermitage of Santa Bárbara. In fact, it shows the will to work to correct what it considers to be a mistake.
And in La Rioja, another of the assets unregistered by the church that appears on that list is the cemetery of Autol. We have spoken with Catalina Bastida, who has been surprised by the news. He has explained that the cemetery he is referring to is the castle cemetery and which was donated by a family to the city council. He has also ensured that it is a property of municipal ownership and has explained that there are already future plans to adapt the area
From the Diocese of Calahorra and Lacalzada-Logroño welcomes the fact that the Government of Spain has accredited the work of the Church in these registrations, which, in any case, comply with current legislation. From the Church in La Rioja it is clarified that there is a period authorized to correct any possible error in registration.
This is how this document comes to light that the table of the Council of Ministers commissioned in 2017 to the property registrars during the Rajoy government and after a non-law proposal of the PSOE. The Catholic Church was able to register thousands of properties between 1998 and 2015 thanks to a Francoist law and the subsequent reform of the Government of Aznar, which also allowed the registration of temples such as the Mosque of Córdoba. It was enough for the diocese itself to say that it was its owner to name it. The reform of the Mortgage Law in 2015 prevented the church from continuing with this type of registration with practically no certification beyond its own.
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