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Discussion of the political upheaval brought about by regional and municipal elections across Spain as well as Mallorca has focused primaril...

In the mid-1990s, Ramon Viñals i Soler, a businessman and politician from Barcelona, was charged with the task of reviving masonry in the Ba...

Strip away the religion and abortion remains an issue of morality and ethics. No one, or at least I assume no one, can ever suggest that it ...

In my second year at grammar school, my class was set an R.E. homework assignment to write a nativity play. My best friend Derek and myself ...

Should it come as any great surprise that the youth in the Balearics are less religious than their parents or grandparents? It would surely ...

Xavier Salinas is the new Bishop of Mallorca. His appointment will be one that will be of little or no consequence to the overwhelming major...

Who is the largest landowner in Spain? The answer is not a who but a what. It is the Catholic church. Knowing exactly how much property ho...

Were you aware that in twenty years time half the world's population will be homosexual? This won't be as a consequence of some type...

If you fancy being a bishop, then having a Christian name of Jesús is probably no great disadvantage. And so it is with the Bishop of Mallor...

The Fundación Gadeso is probably an organisation you are unfamiliar with. But much of the information about social and economic issues in Ma...

The Pope's favourite two words. Aggressive and secularism. Combined, they come out like a knocking-copy comparative advertising slogan. ...

Good news for Mallorcan agnostics. Religious education is less popular than it was. The Balearics have fewer students taking religion than a...

The anti-abortion rally that took place in Madrid on Saturday attracted, depending on whose figures you believe, anything between a quarter ...

Spain will hold a general election on 9 March. I can already hear the presses being cranked up with the “Vota” posters. There are two partie...

From Sa Pobla, Lluc, Soller, Petra, Vilafranca de Bonany and Mancor de la Vall - “Els màrtirs del Coll”. Male and female - Brothers and Sist...

The beatification of Roman Catholic clergy killed by the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War has raised unpleasant memories and no litt...