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Around the world, Church celebrates a Christmas like no other

Dec 27, 2020

ROSARIO, Argentina — When history books look back on how the Catholic Church experienced Christmas 2020, no matter where that history is written, inevitably the COVID-19 pandemic will loom large. In Rome and around the world, bishops and other Catholic leaders called for vaccines to be made available to poor

By Inés San Martín

Spanish bishops decry ‘moral rupture’ as euthanasia law gains traction

Dec 11, 2020

Progress in passing a bill that would legalize euthanasia in Spain signals a failure of morality and of the government’s mandate to protect the life of its citizens, the country’s bishops said.

By Junno Arocho Esteves

Spain’s Catholics say new education law would violate their rights

Dec 8, 2020

Catholics in Spain are angry about a new education law that would downgrade religious teaching and restrict state funding for Catholic schools.

By Jonathan Luxmoore

Firestorm on Twitter in Spain after trending topic calls for burning priests

Nov 25, 2020

Despite restrictions on hate speech on social media in Spain, a trending hashtag calling for Catholic priests to be burned alive was not removed for violating rules against posting calls for violence.

By Inés San Martín

Spanish bishops, Europeans warn of economic, social wounds from pandemic

Nov 21, 2020

Spain’s Catholic bishops warned of a “deep wound” left by rising inequality and moral collapse during the COVID-19 crisis, as churches across Europe also cited plummeting incomes and deteriorating conditions.

By Jonathan Luxmoore

Spain’s bishops meet as religious freedom threatened in the country

Nov 18, 2020

As the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops holding a virtual fall assembly, the bishops of Spain are also holding their fall gathering.

By Inés San Martín

In Spain, coronavirus puts the poor at the back of the line

Nov 5, 2020

In Spain, the situation of low income people has been worse than in much of Europe during the COVID-19 crisis due to the big role of hard-hit industries like tourism and weaker social welfare benefits.

By Aritz Parra

Political tact doesn’t stop Pope from (indirectly) tweaking Trump

Oct 27, 2020

If concern about being seen as partisan close to an election were actually as strong as the Vatican often likes to say, would it have been so hard to wait a few days to give a thumbs-up to a book or to name a new crop of cardinals?

By John L. Allen Jr.