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Cardinal attacks euthanasia law being debated in Spanish parliament as ‘defeat for humanity’

Sep 16, 2020

Cardinal Antonio Cañizares of Valencia, said that the possible approval of the legalization of euthanasia, currently being discussed in the Spanish senate, would be a “major and historical defeat for the whole of Spain.”

By Inés San Martín

Salvadoran university welcomes conviction for ’89 Jesuit murders

Sep 15, 2020

The Jesuit-run Central American University in El Salvador welcomed the verdict of a Spanish court, which convicted a former Salvadoran colonel for the murder of five Jesuit priests in 1989.

By David Agren

Spanish court convicts ex-Salvadoran colonel of 1989 murders of 5 Jesuits

Sep 11, 2020

A Spanish court has convicted a former Salvadoran colonel for the murders of five Jesuit priests in 1989 — a rare act of justice for an atrocity from El Salvador’s brutal civil war.

By David Agren

Take-aways from the Vatican’s ‘Thursday Thunder’

Aug 8, 2020

For the whole Catholic world, August 15 means the Feast of the Assumption. In Italy, it also means ferragosto, the traditional summer holiday that sees the whole country head to either the beach or the mountains, or both, roughly from the second week of August until early September.

By John L. Allen Jr.

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

Spanish bishop of St. Junipero Serra’s birthplace defends missionary’s legacy

Jul 23, 2020

As statues of St. Junipero Serra continue to be vandalized in the United States, a Spanish bishop defended the evangelizer of California in the same place where the 18th century Franciscan saint was baptized.

By Inés San Martín