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Catalan Catholic Church and Andalusian president condemn public broadcaster TV3's depiction of Virgin Mary

Advocates are in favor of creating committee with coercive powers to quantify extent of issue

Church agrees with Spanish government to rectify situation after review of 35,000 estates registered between 1998 and 2015

Xavier Novell committed a canonical crime automatically stripping him of his title

Catalan society now a lot more diverse thanks to waves of immigration over the past decades

Government considers restricting religious events to 100 people but says current state of alarm does not allow ban on places of worship 

Religious institution was permitted to act as notary thanks to a Franco era law in force until 2015

Pilgrims also urged to use common sense over kissing of religious icons the Black Madonna and Virgin of Núria

Monastic committee investigating case to send findings to public prosecutor, Ombudsman, and religious authorities

In 1545 the Catholic Church in Catalonia ordered the keeping of register of all the baptisms and deaths in local parishes. This way, the Church was the pioneer in the register of persons, since the current civil registry was not established until years later. Only a few cities still preserve all the baptismal books, and Solsona, in Lleida, is one of them. The city even keeps the first baptismal book of its history,  that dates back to 1565. The Center for the Restoration of movable cultural heritage of Catalonia has spent 6 months on its restoration and has reproduced it in a copy that everyone from Solsona will be able to access.