在法国、意大利和西班牙，天主教会坚决主张使用女性助产士，以保护女性的羞耻。

In France, Italy and Spain the Catholic church insisted on the use of female midwives, to protect female modesty.

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天主教徒为主的法国人，很难接受这些外来人口，因此他们投下反对票。

Since the mainly Catholic French find it difficult to except these immigrant populations, they cast opposing votes in the referendum.

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法国一家法院近日裁定，法国最大的天主教堂圣·尼古拉斯大教堂属于俄罗斯。

French court has ruled that St. Nicholas cathedral, the biggest Roman Catholic cathedral in the country, is actually the property of Russia.

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The association of Catholicism as the dominant religion in both of the enemy countries, France and Spain, is extremely important.

作为这两个敌国的国教,天主教会和法国及西班牙的联系举足轻重

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Now,every time there's a big time political disaster, from the point of view of the Catholic Church in France, it's followed by a period of religious revival.

于是,每当天主教会看到法国政治格局,有重大的变盘,紧接着就会兴起宗教复兴

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Part of this reconstructing of national identity often has as much to do with who you're not, not absolute, not Catholic, not French as it does with you who imagine yourself to be.

对国家认同感的重建,一定程度上基于你不是什么,即不是独裁者,不是天主教,不是法国人,这点和自身定位同样至关重要

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