Andalusian Holy Week is civil, it has brothers and steps, but no priests. Civil associations proliferate outside the Church, especially in suburban neighborhoods.

They welcome homosexuals and divorced people, despite the mockery that underestimates them as “pirates.” “They are born when they go to their parishes and show a need that is not answered,” says Cristóbal M. Calvo, president of the civil Salud y Esperanza and the Fecosevilla federation.