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	Spanish Court Convicts Archbishop Catholic World News December 10, 2007 http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=55249 Madrid — A Spanish court has ruled in favor of a Catholic priest who brought a criminal complaint against his own archbishop. Archbishop Francisco Javier Martinez Fernandez of Granada has been found guilty on charges of attempted intimidation, and fined €3,750 (about $5,500). The court rule that the archbishop had illegally sought to stop Father Francisco Javier Martinez Media, a former archdiocesan archivist, from publishing a book about the city's cathedral. Before and during the trial, Archbishop Martinez argued that the secular court had no authority to intervene in a matter of internal Church discipline.
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