Tucked away in the Gothic Quarter, the Church of Saint Philip Neri is a baroque beauty with a tragic history. It was heavily damaged during the Spanish Civil War, and you can still see the bomb ...

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 ...

A church in Spain has been under construction for more than 140 years, which is far longer than the 20 years it took to build the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. La Sagrada Familia, arguably ...

José María Martínez, a teacher at Gaztelueta School (an Opus Dei institution located in Lejona, Spain) was notified of his ...

The Observatory for Religious Freedom and Conscience is calling on Spain’s Ministry of the Interior to strengthen security at ...

A new scandal has erupted in Spain when more than one in 200 Spaniards claim they were sexually abused by the Catholic Church when they were minors, according to an official report published in ...

The Spanish Church played an important political role in the 1936-1939 civil war, supporting the nationalists led by General Francisco Franco who eventually defeated the strongly anti-clerical ...

(photo: Courtesy photo / Diocese of Huelva, Spain) Nicolás de Cárdenas/CNA ... of Pope Francis nor with the pastoral practice of the Church.” The text concludes by stating that “the Diocese ...

Santiago, the Spanish name for St. James the Great ... coinciding with the last phase of the church’s construction and the town’s cultural and economic peak. (These frescoes shattered ...

Originally constructed in 1242, the church was remodeled and restored several times, perhaps most famously between 1690 and 1693 when the interiors were decorated with fresco paintings of scenes ...

But the church wasn't always Gaudí's. The architect that was first commissioned to work on the Sagrada, Francisco de Paula del Villar, was replaced after disagreeing with its promoters.