Spain authorities’ ‘confusion’ prevented priests from administering last rites to train crash victims

Bishop Jesús Fernández of Córdoba has said that the “confusion” of the authorities prevented priests at the scene of the recent train crash in Adamuz from administering last rites to victims.

Fernández said priests at the scene of the accident couldn’t administer last rites to the victims because authorities “thought the dead were already dead and something could be done for the living”.

He suggested this “lack of understanding could have caused the confusion, which...