On a Sunday this fall, in the Spanish village of Moià, the church bell tolled 12 times, signaling that the midday Roman Catholic Mass was about to start. Dressed up for the occasion, Rosa Bordó ...

Margaret Chowning - University of California, Berkeley 'Stepping away from the well-trodden paths of analyzing Catholic ideology’s constraints on women’s bodily and spiritual autonomy or the ...

The scandal is closely linked to the Catholic Church, which under Franco assumed a prominent role in Spain's social services including hospitals, schools and children's homes.

Mr Ibarra moved to Spain last October ... the first time someone has been caught in the act of pretending to be a Catholic priest. In 2008, a man who had not been ordained was found to be hearing ...

It is a great joy for me to welcome you to the house of St. Peter, to the home of the Church,” the pope shared with the ...

The Infant Jesus of Prague is a tourist symbol that attracts parishioners and the curious. The Catholic icon, located in the Church of Our Lady of Victorious, seems to defy statistics that rank the ...

The Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Spain has accepted “with filial obedience” the recent doctrinal note by the country’s bishops on practices of “intergenerational healing” that are not ...

Religious differences Spain was a Catholic country and England a Protestant country – meaning that the two rulers had conflicting spiritual outlooks. Marriage rejection King Philip of Spain had ...

(AP Photo/Paul White) MADRID Spain (AFP) — Spain's left-wing government on Tuesday upped the pressure on the Catholic Church to compensate victims of sexual abuse committed on its watch. Unlike in ...

This report presents a range of statistics and facts about minority religions in Spain. After an introductory ... worship other than those of the Roman Catholic Church. The report also provides ...

It was 1901, and the union between Elisa and Marcela remains the only known same-sex marriage in the history of the Spanish Catholic Church. But the couple's sweet victory over the conservative ...