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Cardinal Ricard says decision to shut second seminary 'is not the end of the road' Opened in 1901, St. Joseph's Seminary in Bordeaux will close from the start of the new academic year in September, Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard has announced. "I did not come to this decision without some heartache but the good of the seminarians and concern for their formation need to come before any other consideration," said Cardinal Ricard, the archbishop of Bordeaux, in a May 18 statement, noting that only five new candidates were expected for September. "That number will not allow us to offer these young...

PARIS - Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force. This is all illegal in France: the public worship, the blocked streets, and the private security. But the police have been ordered not to intervene. It shows that even though some in the French government want to get tough with Muslims and ban the burqa, other parts of the French government continue to give Islam a privileged status. An ordinary French citizen who has been watching the Islamization of Paris decided that the world needed to...