Food & Drink: Eight Spanish wines to snap up now

Sam Wylie-Harris rounds up some top-notch styles and best buys from the biggest vineyard in the world. Salud! A playground for winemakers and pleasure-seekers, when it comes to vino, Spain’s got the lot. It’s one of our best loved holiday destinations and Spanish wines are quite the oenophile’s odyssey too, with reds young and old,... Read More

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December 1, 2017

Spanish cardinal says Church teaching rejects national independence

Less than one month before elections in Catalonia, a Spanish cardinal said Catholics everywhere are violating Church teaching if they support pro-independence movements. “In democratically constituted nations, there can be no moral legitimacy for unilateral secession,” Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera of Valencia said in a Wednesday 29th November commentary for the Madrid-based La Razon daily.... Read More

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October 31, 2017

Spanish prelates urge unity

Spanish Church leaders reiterated support for their country’s unity as the federal government in Madrid imposed direct control over Catalonia. However, Catholic organisations in the breakaway region – which declared independence on 27th October – condemned the crackdown and warned government actions could have “incalculable consequences.” Cardinal Ricardo Blazquez Perez of Valladolid, president of the... Read More

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October 10, 2017

Spanish Church leaders seek unity as Catalonia considers independence

A Spanish cardinal defended his country’s unity as a “moral good” and condemned “sedition and fraud” by secessionists, as politicians in Catalonia prepared to debate independence at a regional parliamentary session today, on 10th October. “Many of us feel intense pain, as if a dagger had been thrust into our guts,” said Cardinal Antonio Canizares... Read More

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June 17, 2017

Pep talk for Catalan independence vote

Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola has called on the international community to support a referendum on Catalan independence that Spain’s government considers illegal. Guardiola read a manifesto at a rally of several thousand supporters of Catalan independence who gathered at a fountain in Barcelona last Sunday. He urged “democracies in Europe and around the world... Read More

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