Spanish Diocese Cancels Parish Prep Course for Blessing Irregular Couples
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Spanish Supreme Court Rules Surrogacy Exploits Women, Harms Children’s Rights
The Spanish Supreme Court also pointed out that 'surrogacy is a huge business in which the commissioning parents pay significant amounts of money, part of which goes to the surrogate mother.'
Pope Francis to Filipino Community in Spain: The Church ‘Is a Warm and Welcoming Home’
The Immaculate Conception and St. Lorenzo Ruiz Parish was established in 1999 to serve Filipino Catholics living and working in Barcelona.
Another 4,000 20th-Century Martyrs in Spain Will Be Beatified in Coming Years, Expert Says
Martín de la Hoz emphasized that 'what is most impressive is that those 7,500 martyrs, blesseds, their martyrdom is documented, that is, they died out of hatred for the faith and it is documented that they died forgiving.'
There’s a Price to Pay When the Church Dispenses With Its Traditions
COMMENTARY: The Vatican’s apparent openness to forgo some of its longstanding institutional privileges risks reducing the Church to the status of being merely another secular organization.
Carmelite Friends of Pope Francis in Spain to Leave Convent After 400 Years
The 412-year uninterrupted presence of the Discalced Carmelites in the Lucena monastery will end.
Excommunication Looms for Renegade Group of Poor Clares in Spain
Since the decrees were delivered by hand on June 6, the deadline for Sister Sión to appear to testify in court is Sunday, June 16.
Spain Archbishop on Schismatic Nuns: ‘I Don’t Know if they Realize the Profound Consequences’
On May 13, when they announced their departure from the Catholic Church, the Poor Clares of Belorado indicated in a letter and a declaration that they recognize “H.H. Pius XII as the last valid Supreme Pontiff,” a decision that was explained through an attached 70-page text titled “Catholic Manifesto” claiming that “the see of St. Peter is vacant and usurped.”
Spanish Archbishop Slams Government’s Obsession With the Catholic Church
The archbishop said Christians are called to defend abuse victims, 'assuming our responsibility in what concerns us, but urging that the entire society also adopt appropriate measures, starting with government leaders,' he added.
Laicized Spanish Bishop Emeritus Marries in the Church
Pope Benedict XVI appointed Novell bishop of Solsona on Nov. 3, 2010, and he was consecrated on Dec. 12 of that year at age 41, becoming the youngest bishop in the Spanish episcopate.
