Then, card. Rouco Varela mentioned the agreements of 1976 and 1979, highlighting that "there is no reason based on either theory or good political practice" to change the current legal relations between the State and the Church. The cardinal stated that "in Spain the current legal perspective gives a good solution to the current problem of the relation between the Church and the State, whether we look at the problem in the light of legal history or within the scientific horizon of the comparative ecclesiastic law of the nations that have a stronger democratic tradition in Europe and America". In addition, from a sociological perspective, the cardinal emphasised the importance of such relations for the current situation, which is experienced as "the transition from a kind of Christian society in Spain, a Catholic one to another, religiously more pluralist, one". A change that affects all the spheres of life, in which faith and its translation into ethical models of conduct play "a key role". Cases in point are "marriage and the family, health and sickness, teaching and the intellectual, cultural and artistic education of people, the practice of solidarity and love for one’s neighbours in situations of deficiency and material and spiritual poverty, moral criteria and principles, the inspiration behind the conception of the legal and political order of society".
