Madrid, Spain, Mar 2, 2006 / 22:00 pm
Bishop Juan del Rio of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, decried this week what he called the double-standard that exists in the country, as Spain’s leaders “call for ‘sensitivity’ in understanding Islam but remain silent or look the other way in response to attacks on Christianity.”
Bishop del Rio mentioned blasphemous theatrical productions that, with “significant public financing,” have recently debuted in Spain, as well as various television programs that ridicule or denigrate the images of Christ and the saints and that paint Catholics as “a group of repressed cave-dwellers.”