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                <language>en</language><item><title>Netherlands | Go your way | Cartoon (De Volkskrant, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1310381-go-your-way</link><description><![CDATA[Go your way (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/Collignon-490.jpg" length="62736" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:54:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Palikot power transforms national politics</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1068491-palikot-power-transforms-national-politics</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Palikot&rsquo;s revolution&rdquo;, headlines Wprost weekly on the movement which garnered over 10 percent of the vote in the recent Polish election, making it the third [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/wprost-1810201-100.jpg" length="40536" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:43:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Austria | Devil keeps faith alive</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1000761-devil-keeps-faith-alive</link><description><![CDATA[Worried by what is a growing trend in Austria, Falter  headlines: &quot;Patients visited by exorcist.&quot; Having established that &quot;the  chief exorcist in the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Falter-28092011-100.jpg" length="42361" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:23:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Religion | Pope oversees a dwindling church</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/976501-pope-oversees-dwindling-church</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The  Church dies in Europe,&rdquo; headlines Tygodnik Powszechny on the occasion  of Benedict XVI&rsquo;s visit to Germany starting September 22. Statistics  published [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Tygodnik-Powszechny-2209201-100.jpg" length="41633" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:01:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | Muscular Christianity | Cartoon (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/868491-muscular-christianity</link><description><![CDATA[Muscular Christianity (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/horsch-catholic.jpg" length="31007" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:55:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | Madrid kicks off World Youth Day</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/864871-madrid-kicks-world-youth-day</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Welcome to Spain, a country with Christian roots,&rdquo; headlines ABC, in the wake of a mass in Cibeles Square, which launched the beginning of a [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110817abc.jpg" length="7476" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:08:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ireland | Taoiseach lambasts the Pope</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/787591-taoiseach-lambasts-pope</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Kenny accuses Pope of playing down rape, torture of children,&rdquo; headlines the Irish Independent. Just a week after the publication of the Cloyne report on [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/21072011-Irish-Independ-100.jpg" length="13186" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:27:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Croatia | Pope: EU good for the soul</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/695431-pope-eu-good-soul</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Croats, fear not the European Union (EU)!&rdquo; Paraphrasing the cry launched by John Paul II to peoples under the communist yoke, Vecernji list sums up [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/vecernji-list-06062011-100.jpg" length="36974" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:29:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Pious rhetoric could kill John Paul II cult</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/628011-pious-rhetoric-could-kill-john-paul-ii-cult</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Blessed&rdquo;  &ndash;  so runs the headline in today&rsquo;s Gazeta Wyborcza after the beatification ceremony for pope John Paul II before a gathering of [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/gazeta-02052011-100.jpg" length="38948" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 12:44:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Shortcut to heaven</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/624791-shortcut-heaven</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;How we love John Paul II&rdquo; reads Polska The Times&rsquo; headline ahead of the beatification ceremony for the late pope on May 1, which may [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110429pt.jpg" length="7574" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:00:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Contemporary art | Fundamentalists attack Christ artwork</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/604011-fundamentalists-attack-christ-artwork</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Whackos hammer Piss Christ,&rdquo; headlines Lib&eacute;ration,  in the wake of the destruction of a photograph showing a plastic  crucifix submerged in urine by [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Liberation-18042011-100.jpg" length="41500" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:20:02 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Priest reveals sins of the Polish Church</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/428341-priest-reveals-sins-polish-church</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The guilt of my church&rdquo;, reads the headline on Gazeta Wyborcza&rsquo;s frontpage. It refers to the letter to the Vatican&rsquo;s nuncio in Poland, archibishop Celestin [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/14122010-Gazeta-Wybor-100.jpg" length="17683" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:58:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Religion | Pope on the ropes (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/380301-pope-ropes</link><description><![CDATA[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. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/pape-espagne.jpg" length="57093" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:39:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Fewer believers, but church coffers swell</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/345801-fewer-believers-church-coffers-swell</link><description><![CDATA[In Europe&rsquo;s most atheistic society, &ldquo;the number of believers is on the wane, but steady growth in the ranks of the clergy will mean that [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/24092010-Lidove-Noviny-100.jpg" length="14379" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:18:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>United Kingdom | A Catholic and a German</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/340871-catholic-and-german</link><description><![CDATA[The Independent calls Pope Benedict&rsquo;s visit to Britain a Mission Improbable. Even without the gaffe by Cardinal Kasper, who compared touching down in multicultural London [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/17092010-The-Independ-100.jpg" length="13198" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:29:02 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Steve Bell, The Guardian (London) | Pope hails Britain | Cartoon (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/picture/340381-pope-hails-britain</link><description><![CDATA[Pope hails Britain (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/16.09.10-Steve-Bell-carto-001.jpg" length="35235" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:42:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Warsaw's cross row</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/311881-warsaw-s-cross-row</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Bring down the palace, it obscures the view of the cross!&rdquo; and &ldquo;Move the cross to church, Poland is a secular country!&rdquo;, these slogans could [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100810gazetawyborcza.jpg" length="6956" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:13:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Belgium | Police open crypt in child abuse inquiry</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/281441-police-open-crypt-child-abuse-inquiry</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Raid in houses of God&rdquo;, headlines Brussels newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws. As part of an investigation into child abuse in the Belgian Catholic church, the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/25062010-Het-Laatste-Nieuws.jpg" length="15436" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:27:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Portugal | Austerity and His Holiness</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/249581-austerity-and-his-holiness</link><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100511publico.jpg" length="7406" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 17:04:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Sexual abuse | Irish Cardinal to consult Holy Spirit</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/212431-irish-cardinal-consult-holy-spirit</link><description><![CDATA[In the wake of child sexual abuse allegations that have rocked the Irish  Catholic church to its foundations, the primate of all Ireland is [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Irish-Times-18032010.jpg" length="39726" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:11:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Church Affairs | Diplomat to lead Czech Catholics</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/191331-diplomat-lead-czech-catholics</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;First the fighter, now the diplomat,&quot; announces Lidovay Noviny upon the appointment of Dominik Duka as Archbishop of Prague. The Vatican has decided that the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Lidové-Noviny-15022010.jpg" length="41024" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:37:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Church banged by sexual abuse scandal</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/185301-church-banged-sexual-abuse-scandal</link><description><![CDATA[An unprecedented scandal has hit the German Catholic Church and its &ldquo;sanctimonious hypocrites&rdquo;, as Der Spiegel calls them on this week&rsquo;s cover. After revelations that [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100208-spiegel.jpg" length="6383" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:47:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Belgium | Poles, Africans, Gays - begone!</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/183391-poles-africans-gays-begone</link><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Trouw-03022010.JPG" length="40987" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:16:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy | From hope trips to death trips</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/179361-hope-trips-death-trips</link><description><![CDATA[In the past, the Italian media was moved by &quot;hope trips&quot; &ndash; stories of people travelling abroad seeking medical treatment unavailable at home. Today, medical [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100127-stampa.jpg" length="7685" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:33:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Religion | European Court bans the Cross</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/130541-european-court-bans-cross</link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday&rsquo;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 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/repubblica-041109.jpg" length="39506" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:15:41 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Catholic Church | Vatican says Marx is good dope</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/122161-vatican-says-marx-good-dope</link><description><![CDATA[Karl Marx, who coined the phrase &ldquo;Religion is the opium of the people&rdquo;, may well be spinning in his grave at Highgate cemetery, London, with [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/times-091022.jpg" length="6418" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:54:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Pope in the land of the Godless</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/105341-pope-land-godless</link><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/lidove-noviny-280909.JPG" length="41703" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:37:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Condoms to accompany Pope&#039;s visit</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/101741-condoms-accompany-popes-visit</link><description><![CDATA[Lidov&eacute; Noviny&#039;s&nbsp;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 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/lidove-noviny-100x130_5.jpg" length="41938" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:38:49 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Obituary | So farewell then Leszek Kolakowski</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/58521-so-farewell-then-leszek-kolakowski</link><description><![CDATA[Gazeta Wyborcza pays homage to Leszek Kolakowski, the most influential Polish philosopher of the XXth century who died on Friday. &ldquo;He started and won the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:02:46 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Rehabilitation | St Peter shortly to admit Oscar Wilde...</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/57511-st-peter-shortly-admit-oscar-wilde</link><description><![CDATA[As The Times ironically observes, &quot;in life, he was about as likely a Catholic hero as Pontius Pilate,&quot; but now &quot;Oscar Wilde has been claimed [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:59:01 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | It was 20 years ago today... (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/17251-it-was-20-years-ago-today</link><description><![CDATA[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.” (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/walesa-Geremek-Jaruzelski-Rakowski_1.jpg" length="52496" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:59:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | A skeleton in the sacristy (Lidové noviny , Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/14901-skeleton-sacristy</link><description><![CDATA[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. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/jan-sokol-490x225_3.jpg" length="40274" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:21:46 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ireland | Bad education (The Irish Times, Dublin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/5911-bad-education</link><description><![CDATA[A nation is reeling from the findings of the Child Abuse Commission in which rape and sexual molestation were &quot;endemic&quot; in Irish Catholic church-run industrial schools and orphanages. Fintan O&#039;Toole in the Irish Times wonders how a society could have consigned children &quot;to a system of terror.&quot; (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/priest-collar.jpg" length="18671" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 16:21:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
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