Portugal Archives

Amid protests, Portugal lawmakers weigh allowing euthanasia

Feb 20, 2020

Protesters gathered Thursday outside Portugal’s parliament where lawmakers were due to debate proposals that would allow euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill people.

By Barry Hatton

Spanish, Portuguese bishops reject moves to legalize euthanasia

Feb 15, 2020

Spanish and Portuguese church leaders rejected plans to legalize euthanasia in their traditionally Catholic countries, and urged broad discussions of such proposals before they are considered by legislators.

By Jonathan Luxmoore

Portuguese Catholic Church finds few sexual abuse cases

Feb 13, 2019

The Catholic Church’s news service in Portugal reports that a senior official says church authorities have investigated only about a dozen allegations of sexual abuse involving Portuguese priests since 2001.

By Associated Press

For next ‘Catholic Woodstock,’ there’s definitely something about Mary

Jan 28, 2019

On Sunday it was announced that the next global World Youth Day gathering would take place in Lisbon, Portugal, just a stone’s throw from the site of the 1917 Marian apparitions in Fatima. Often referred to as a “Catholic Woodstock,” WYD is by far the biggest event the Church organizes on a regular basis, and rarely has it been so rooted in Marian devotion.

By Elise Harris

Americans divided, but bishops elsewhere back Pope on cover-up charge

Aug 31, 2018

After sensational charges that Pope Francis ignored misconduct warnings against ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, American bishops appear divided but prelates elsewhere seem to be backing the pontiff.

By Inés San Martín

New Portuguese cardinal expected to bring Church ‘closer to people’

Jun 2, 2018

“The Holy Father knows well what I think, and knows he has a supporter in me for his reforms,” Cardinal-designate Antonio dos Santos Marto of Leiria-Fatima said.

By Jonathan Luxmoore