Spain

Spanish cardinal urges calm amid mass protests

CHURCH leaders in Spain have appealed for restraint amid mass protests against the new Socialist-led government’s plans to grant amnesty to jailed Catalan separatists

24 Nov 2023

RC bishops in Spain apologise for clerical sex abuse but dispute number of victims

ROMAN CATHOLIC bishops in Spain have indicated, in the wake of a critical parliamentary report, their wish to make reparation for clerical sex abuse, but reject “media extrapolations” about the high number of victims

03 Nov 2023

Mother of beleaguered Spanish football executive takes up vigil in church

A CHURCH in the south of Spain has found itself at the centre of a media storm after Ángeles Béjar, the mother of Luis Rubiales, the beleaguered president of the Spanish football federation (RFEF), shut herself in the building

29 Aug 2023

Widespread abuse is acknowledged in Roman Catholic Church in Spain

30 Jun 2023

Interview: José María R. Olaizola SJ, sociologist and head of communications

05 May 2023

Spanish bishops resist ‘secularist’ agenda

06 Apr 2023

Book club: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

02 Mar 2023

Skateboarding HSBC worker who died in Borough Market terror attack on path to canonisation

10 Feb 2023

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Interview: Rebekah Scott, founder, Peaceable Projects

27 Jan 2023

Photo story: Well below par

19 Aug 2022

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17 Jun 2022

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