Catholic Church Adjusts to Minority Status in Europe
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Now that it is often treated like a maligned minority, the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe has decided to start acting like one too.
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The BBC's Gabriel Partos examines how European countries use forms of self-government to accommodate minorities.
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A senior Vatican cardinal says there is an anti-Catholic &quot;inquisition&quot; in Europe, evidenced in the controversy over the remarks of Rocco Buttiglione.
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The row over Italian commissioner Rocco Buttiglione highlights the Vatican's struggle for influence in Europe.
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The Archdiocese of Valencia, Spain, said last week more than a million people in the province of Valencia alone have signed a petition to support religion classes in public schools.
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Attempts to integrate minority faiths have left the UK "more separated" a Church of England document says.
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ROME, Sep 11 (IPS) - Migrants most often carry their religion with them,  and this often leads to clashes with people in their host  country, Peter Schatzer, Director Mediterranean Regional Office  and Head of Mission in Italy for the International Organisation  for Migration (IOM), tells IPS correspondent Sabina Zaccaro. And  that makes religion a particular issue for about 95 million  migrants around the world.
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Black and Asian clergy members are unlikely to reach high office in the Church of England and minorities are sometimes marginalized in parish churches, an internal review will show, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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Ireland's government announced Thursday it will organize new nonreligious primary schools in the capital, a move that reflects growing immigration and declining church power in this traditionally Roman Catholic nation.
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This month, Catholic Portugal may decide  to break ranks with a small group of countries including  Ireland and Poland and legalize abortions, in a referendum  which some cast as a deeper test of its readiness for progress.
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Racism and religious intolerance are rising in Europe, with Muslims and Jews targeted in a misguided backlash against global terrorism and Middle East violence, delegates at an international conference on racism said.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria, DEC. 7, 2004 ( Zenit.org ).- The Holy See denounced the discrimination suffered by Catholics in some member-countries of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
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Pope Benedict and the Archbishop of Canterbury committed their Churches to the quest for unity on Thursday but acknowledged that issues such as women priests and gay bishops in the Anglican Church were obstacles.
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A decree by Pope Benedict allowing priests to say the old Latin Mass more frequently has sparked criticism within both Catholic and Jewish ranks, with one Italian bishop saying he was "in mourning".
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This month, Catholic Portugal may decide to break ranks with a small group of countries including Ireland and Poland and legalize abortions, in a referendum which some cast as a deeper test of its readiness for progress.
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Some are Catholics who see their church as stuck in the past. Others are believers who happen to be divorced, pregnant before marriage or gay. A few just can't find a priest when they need one.
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The European Union will continue financing human stem cell research, ministers from the bloc's 25 member states decided Monday, overcoming opposition from a group of mostly Catholic countries.