If the Church is acting as a vehicle for a military coup that seeks to depose the democratically elected regime, then it is not invulnerable from the law.
What an absolute pile of BS you just barfed there. Franco saved Spain...for example, by asking the German Condor to bomb Guernica and using state-sponsored media to accuse the communists instead?
Tell me more about saving a country...
Both the winners and the losers can be the bad guys.
Yeah, people die during civil wars. But it's not the republicans who overthrew a second republic, and Franco did certainly not 'save' anything.