Author: Barry Hatton
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Anger over corruption and Portugal’s economy could help a radical right party in Sunday’s election
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Corruption is a key issue in Portugal’s early general election on Sunday
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Police, protesters clash outside Barcelona-Real Madrid game
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BARCELONA, Spain • Riot police clashed with protesters in the streets Wednesday night outside a soccer match between Barcelona and Real Madrid, as authorities sought to keep Catalonia’s separatist movement from disrupting the game viewed by 650 million people worldwide. The match in Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium began without incident and was halted only briefly…
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Barcelona van attack kills 13 in agonizing repeat for Europe
BARCELONA, Spain — A van veered onto a promenade and barreled down the busy walkway in central Barcelona on Thursday, swerving back and forth as it mowed down pedestrians and turned a picturesque tourist destination into a bloody killing zone. Thirteen people were killed and 100 were injured, 15 of them seriously, in what authorities…
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Pope makes 2 Fatima children saints on centenary of visions
FATIMA, Portugal — Pope Francis added two Portuguese shepherd children to the roster of Catholic saints Saturday, honoring young siblings whose reported visions of the Virgin Mary 100 years ago turned the Portuguese farm town of Fatima into one of the world’s most important Catholic shrines. Francis proclaimed Francisco and Jacinta Marto saints at the…
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Church’s sins to blame for sex scandal, pope says
LISBON, Portugal — In his most thorough admission of the church’s guilt in the clerical sex abuse scandal, Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday the greatest persecution of the institution “is born from the sins within the church,” and not from a campaign by outsiders. The pontiff said the Catholic church has always been tormented by…