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The town council of L eacute rida in northern Spain has become the first in that country to ban the veil In a motion passed Friday the council voted to prohibit the use of the veil and other clothes and accessories which cover the face and prevent identification in buildings and installations of

The producer of a popular TV drama series about a Spanish village priest is seeking a Benedict XVI double nbsp Voz Audiovisual makers of the longrunning Galician series Padre Casares says applicants should have a striking physical resemblance to the Pontiff but don t need previous experience o

In the name of the order I acknowledge with shame and guilt our failure Fr Stefan Dartmann SJ the German Jesuit provincial said today I ask for forgiveness His comments came as the Society of Jesus released a report into abuse at its schools over many decades The report which records 205

The Legionaries of Christ are of Christ and not of Maciel Fr Jes uacute s Mar iacute a Delgado regional head of the Legionaries of Christ in Spain has told the religious news site Religi oacute n Digital in an upbeat interview We will do whatever the Church tells us he says in reference

The winner of the Palme d Or at the Cannes film festival this year was a Thai film about reincarnation while Of Gods and Men the true story of the 1996 massacre of French monks in Algeria by Islamists nbsp took the runner-up Grand Prix award The Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul s Uncle B

You may not have heard of the Cathedral of Frombork on Poland s Baltic coast But the remains that were re-buried there yesterday after a ceremony led by Poland s leading churchmen were of one of the best-known scientists in history long associated with one of the most significant shifts in the way

The redoubtable Fr Joseph Fessio SJ editor of the Ignatius Press laid into The Tablet recently for its reporting of the Archbishop of Vienna s criticism of the dean of the College of Cardinals Angelo Sodano over his Easter remarks about media reporting of nbsp clerical sex abuse as gossip S

The new PM has just appeared outside No 10 Downing St to give a speech We are going to have hard and difficult things to do he said – meaning not just confronting a massive deficit but also leading a coalition government with the Liberal-Democrats for this we now know is what it will be Mu

Gordon Brown has tendered his resignation to the Queen bringing to a close 13 years of Labor rule The Conservative Party leader David Cameron is in Buckingham Palace as I write being commissioned by the Queen to form the next nbsp government As I begin this there is no prime minister but by

With just a few seats still to declare but no party winning a majority Parliament remains hung In a bid to lead the next Government the Conservative leader David Cameron has just made what he called a big open comprehensive offer to the Liberal-Democrats Stressing that his is the party wit