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Vatican: ‘The new hand of God’

The British tabloid leads with the same headline as its German counterpart Bild to announce the election of Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the papacy. However, […]

14 March 2013
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Vatican: ‘The surprise of Francis’

On the second day and in the fifth vote of the conclave, the 115 cardinals elected the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, aged […]

14 March 2013
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Vatican: ‘Black smoke, all to play for’

At the end of the first day of conclave, the smoke that rose from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney was black, meaning the 115 cardinals have […]

13 March 2013
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Il Messaggero
Vatican: ‘Pope Academy’

A total of 115 cardinals from all over the world have gathered for the conclave to elect a new pope to succeed Benedict XVI. The conclave […]

12 March 2013
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Vatican: Decision time

11 March 2013
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Vatican: ‘Our pope flies away to retire!’

“A FIRST: the Pope flies off to retire in a helicopter!” announces the German tabloid following the last day of Benedict XVI’s pontificate. The man who […]

1 March 2013
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Vatican: Benedict XVI lays down his burden

28 February 2013
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United Kingdom: ‘Pope forces out Britain’s senior Catholic after claims by priests’

Pope Benedict XVI has forced the sudden resignation of the most senior Roman Catholic priest in Britain, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, following a string of allegations […]

26 February 2013
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Poland: ‘The Church’s hidden sin’

“There could be thousands people in Poland who have been sexually abused by paedophile priests,” writes Ekke Overbeek, a Dutch journalist based in Poland, in […]

1 February 2013
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Germany: Here endeth the lesson

10 January 2013
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Netherlands: Go your way

20 December 2011
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Poland: Palikot power transforms national politics

“Palikot’s revolution”, headlines Wprost weekly on the movement which garnered over 10 percent of the vote in the recent Polish election, making it the third […]

18 October 2011

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Religion: Pope oversees a dwindling church

“The Church dies in Europe,” headlines Tygodnik Powszechny on the occasion of Benedict XVI’s visit to Germany starting September 22. Statistics published […]

22 September 2011

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Spain: Muscular Christianity

18 August 2011
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Ireland: Taoiseach lambasts the Pope

“Kenny accuses Pope of playing down rape, torture of children,” headlines the Irish Independent. Just a week after the publication of the Cloyne report on […]

21 July 2011

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Croatia: Pope: EU good for the soul

“Croats, fear not the European Union (EU)!” Paraphrasing the cry launched by John Paul II to peoples under the communist yoke, Vecernji list sums up […]

6 June 2011

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Poland: Pious rhetoric could kill John Paul II cult

“Blessed” – so runs the headline in today’s Gazeta Wyborcza after the beatification ceremony for pope John Paul II before a gathering of […]

2 May 2011

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Gazeta Wyborcza
Poland: Shortcut to heaven

“How we love John Paul II” reads Polska The Times’ headline ahead of the beatification ceremony for the late pope on May 1, which may […]

29 April 2011

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Contemporary art: Fundamentalists attack Christ artwork

“Whackos hammer Piss Christ,” headlines Libération, in the wake of the destruction of a photograph showing a plastic crucifix submerged in urine by […]

18 April 2011

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Libération
Poland: Priest reveals sins of the Polish Church

“The guilt of my church”, reads the headline on Gazeta Wyborcza’s frontpage. It refers to the letter to the Vatican’s nuncio in Poland, archibishop Celestin […]

14 December 2010

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Religion: Pope on the ropes

In attacking Spanish legislation he deems hostile to traditional family values and lamenting the decline of Catholicism in Europe, the Pope has added further fuel to the debate on religion. The European press is less than convinced.

8 November 2010
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Czech Republic: Fewer believers, but church coffers swell

In Europe’s most atheistic society, “the number of believers is on the wane, but steady growth in the ranks of the clergy will mean that […]

24 September 2010

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United Kingdom: A Catholic and a German

The Independent calls Pope Benedict’s visit to Britain a Mission Improbable. Even without the gaffe by Cardinal Kasper, who compared touching down in multicultural London […]

17 September 2010
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Steve Bell, The Guardian (London): Pope hails Britain

16 September 2010
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IRELAND: The clerical bomb squad?

Revelations about a bomb-happy Irish priest have set the Catholic church spinning – again. There are few targets softer these days than the Catholic church, particularly […]

25 August 2010

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Poland: Warsaw’s cross row

“Bring down the palace, it obscures the view of the cross!” and “Move the cross to church, Poland is a secular country!”, these slogans could […]

10 August 2010

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Belgium: Police open crypt in child abuse inquiry

“Raid in houses of God”, headlines Brussels newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws. As part of an investigation into child abuse in the Belgian Catholic church, the […]

25 June 2010

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Portugal: Austerity and His Holiness

At a time when Portugal is preparing to welcome the Pope for a four-day visit, the Portuguese press examines details of austerity measures currently under […]

11 May 2010

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Público
Sexual abuse: Irish Cardinal to consult Holy Spirit

In the wake of child sexual abuse allegations that have rocked the Irish Catholic church to its foundations, the primate of all Ireland is […]

18 March 2010

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The Irish Times
Church Affairs: Diplomat to lead Czech Catholics

"First the fighter, now the diplomat," announces Lidovay Noviny upon the appointment of Dominik Duka as Archbishop of Prague. The Vatican has decided that the […]

15 February 2010

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Lidové noviny
Germany: Church banged by sexual abuse scandal

An unprecedented scandal has hit the German Catholic Church and its “sanctimonious hypocrites”, as Der Spiegel calls them on this week’s cover. After revelations that […]

8 February 2010
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Belgium: Poles, Africans, Gays - begone!

Although there is a dramatic shortage of clergymen in Belgium, the bishop of Bruges and the new (and already controversial) archbishop of Brussels do not […]

4 February 2010

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Italy: From hope trips to death trips

In the past, the Italian media was moved by "hope trips" – stories of people travelling abroad seeking medical treatment unavailable at home. Today, medical […]

29 January 2010

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La Stampa
Religion: European Court bans the Cross

Yesterday’s ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, which has ordered the removal of crucifixes in Italian schools on the basis that they constitute […]

4 November 2009

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La Repubblica
Catholic Church: Vatican says Marx is good dope

Karl Marx, who coined the phrase “Religion is the opium of the people”, may well be spinning in his grave at Highgate cemetery, London, with […]

22 October 2009
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The Times
Europhrenia: The other side of Lisbon

In Catholic societies, bible study is discouraged as a species of Protestant intellectualism. It’s almost inevitable therefore that in holy Ireland the government of Brian […]

1 October 2009

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Czech Republic: Pope in the land of the Godless

The Godless Czechs are more likely to believe in astrology than in religion, and their reputation as the most atheistic people on the planet is […]

28 September 2009

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Lidové noviny
Czech Republic: Condoms to accompany Pope's visit

Lidové Noviny's front-page carries a photo of the Pope wearing a condom on his head instead of a mitre. The Prague daily reports that this slightly […]

23 September 2009

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Obituary: So farewell then Leszek Kolakowski

Gazeta Wyborcza pays homage to Leszek Kolakowski, the most influential Polish philosopher of the XXth century who died on Friday. “He started and won the […]

20 July 2009

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Rehabilitation: St Peter shortly to admit Oscar Wilde...

As The Times ironically observes, "in life, he was about as likely a Catholic hero as Pontius Pilate," but now "Oscar Wilde has been claimed […]

17 July 2009

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Italy: Berlusconi - Laughing all the way to the polls

If you're from the left, you might have reasons to dislike Silvio Berlusconi. A provisional list could include recent pronouncements against a multi ethnic Italy, […]

6 June 2009

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Poland: It was 20 years ago today...

As Poland celebrates 20 years of political independence, feelings are mixed. While Gazeta Wyborcza raises a glass to a free Poland, “shared by all”, Pawel Lisicki, in Rzeczpospolita laments “a time of ‘amnesia and a weakening of the sense of civic duty.”

4 June 2009
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Slovakia: A skeleton in the sacristy

Will the archbishop of Bratislava be forced to disclose his links with the communist secret police? In the wake of revelations in the press, Slovakians are about to lift a veil of secrecy on the troubled past of the Catholic hierarchy.

2 June 2009
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Ireland: Bad education

A nation is reeling from the findings of the Child Abuse Commission in which rape and sexual molestation were "endemic" in Irish Catholic church-run industrial schools and orphanages. Fintan O'Toole in the Irish Times wonders how a society could have consigned children "to a system of terror."

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I dare say that your "schism" would be not like Luther's, rather it would be like Thomas Müntzer's one. It is one thing not to like how the euro is working, but quite another to mix up misunderstood concepts which serve only to deepen the abyss that already exists.

El elogio de la locura on Europe needs its Martin Luther

These people certainly help to show huge loopholes in the EU system. Is the EU able to act? Laws must be tightened so that people cannot receive benefits in a country where they have never worked. And most of all there must be exemplary penalties against gang leaders.

preda on Immigrants tangled up with Turkish gangs

Europeans have made no use of the European citizenship they have had since 1992. Nice little sheep who allow themselves to be shorn, they continue to place their trust in national parties who are fully focused on their national electoral advantage.

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