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Barcelona cardinal holds Mass in defiance of government order
- Jul 27, 2020
Ignoring a warning from the government of Catalonia, a Spanish cardinal on Sunday led a funeral Mass for the victims of the COVID-19 coronavirus, hours after threatening to take “legal action” against civil authorities for the “arbitrariness” with which the right of religious freedom and worship is being treated.

By Inés San Martín
Barcelona basilica reopens for health workers
- Jul 4, 2020
Barcelona’s iconic La Sagrada Familia basilica has reopened its doors for visits exclusively for health workers after nearly four months of being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

By Associated Press
Spain’s parishes adapt pastoral services during pandemic
- Apr 28, 2020
Today, during the COVID-19 pandemic, people line up at a Catholic charity center in Spain in all weather for food, clothing, masks and medicines.

By Jonathan Luxmoore

Spain: Unfinished Gaudí church gets permit after 137 years
- Jun 9, 2019
Property owners have a new yardstick by way of Spain for measuring frustration over building permit requests they suspect got lost in a local government bureaucracy.

By Associated Press
Designs by ‘God’s Architect’ illuminate both city life and ‘Laudato si’
- Jan 31, 2019
Antoni Gaudí’s legacy is being revived.

By Elise Harris
Spanish prelates urge unity; some Catalonian Catholics advocate self-rule
- Oct 30, 2017
Cardinal Ricardo Blazquez Perez of Valladolid, president of the Spanish bishops’ conference, expressed sadness for the Catalonian declaration of independence and reiterated support “for the constitutional order and … its restoration.” But in Catalonia, the Catholic justice and peace commission and 12 other Catholic organizations said Catalan institutions “predate and do not derive from the 1978 Spanish constitution.”

By Catholic News Service