Spain

Bologna cardinal Matteo Zuppi

Bologna cardinal rails against Church “prophets of calamities who confuse conversion with relativism”

Spanish Catholic women present their 'revolt' for Sunday March 1

Spanish Catholic women “losing patience” with Church: “Without deep changes it will never be the Church of Jesus”

Spanish-Moroccan cardinal blasts Europe for 'selfish' migration policy

Spanish-Moroccan cardinal blasts Europe for “nearsighted, selfish, individualistic and unfair” migration policy

'Zero tolerance' for clergy sex abuse

Bishops in Spain, Italy, France still not applying “zero tolerance” for priest abusers, enablers: survivors

Participants at the Spanish National Lay Congress

“Lay” congress in Spain leaves bittersweet clerical taste: “Priests should give us oxygen to breathe”

Jesuit Refugee Service warns European Court ruling on Spain migrant pushbacks sets 'dangerous precedent'

Jesuit Refugee Service warns European Court ruling on Spain migrant pushbacks sets “dangerous precedent”

Spanish National Congress of Laypeople

Francis pleads with laypeople to renew with “ingenuity and witness” a Europe “suffocated by death and despair”

Rights for Catholic women (stock)

Spanish women theologians shout “Enough!” with “deep discrimination” in Church, call on Catholic women to “revolt”

Spanish-African bishops insist 'No Christian should have a negative attitude towards immigrants'

Spanish-African bishops insist: “No Christian should have a negative attitude towards immigrants”

Home-precarious in Barcelona

Barcelona cardinal laments plight of half-million home-precarious, one-in-four in social exclusion

Priest Robert Sirico launches his anti-Francis economy book in Madrid

Anti-Francis lobby ramps up attack on Pope’s economic vision with pro-free market book launch in Madrid

Prayer vigil in Barcelona against migrant detention centres

Catholics protest for end to Spanish migrant detention centres: “More hospitality, less hostility”

Pope Benedict with then-cardinal Bergoglio

Jorge Mario Bergoglio saved Jesuits from 2007 Vatican intervention: book

LGBT discrimination in the Church

Gay Spanish Catholic denounces Church LGBT discrimination: “It hurts, but they can’t take my faith away”

Archbishop of Tarragona (Spain), Joan Planellas

Spanish archbishop proclaims respect for same-sex families: “The Gospel never condemns”

Session in the Spanish Congress

Spanish Catholic hierarchy swallows bitter pill of left-wing Government… while laypeople welcome it

Energy poverty (stock)

Cardinal sounds alarm for 20,000 “energy poor” in Barcelona

Spanish-Moroccan cardinal Cristóbal López

Spanish-Moroccan cardinal calls for Synod on migration: “The Mediterranean cannot continue to be a frontier of death”

Women at prayer in Mass (stock)

Spanish Catholic women decry rise in Church misogyny due to “huge lack of female presence” in seminaries

A Spanish-speaking congregation at Mass (stock)

Tens of thousands of Spanish laypeople denounce Church’s “excessive clericalism”, “high degree of paternalism”

Spanish cardinal Antonio Cañizares

Grassroots Christians hit out at Spanish cardinal, Catholic lobbies blocking new left-wing Government

Swedish anti-climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg

Former Vatican spokesman: “Greta is an icon”

Climate change

Catholics denounce “depressing and indefensible” COP climate summit results

A woman holding a rosary (stock)

Former Spanish Defence Minister blasts women priests veto: “Monumental nonsense and a manifest injustice”

Cardinal Walter Kasper and Pope Francis

‘Pope’s theologian’ convinced that “in time, doors will be opened” to women at altar

Vatican Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin

Vatican cardinal pleads with COP25 for “practical measures” on “urgent” climate crisis

Consumerism and Black Friday

Barcelona cardinal decries “madness”, “exaggerated consumerism” of Black Friday

Equality for women in the Catholic Church

Spanish women quit Church en masse in protest over Catholic “sexism”

A Catalan pro-independence protest

Catalan bishop calls for release of jailed independence leaders

Barcelona priest Joan Cabot

Barcelona priest expresses wish to officiate same-sex marriages in church