Last year, only 79 new priests were ordained — a historic low. Meanwhile, the Catholic Church in Spain has over 23,000 parishes to care for — the most in the world after Italy. “It’s clear ...

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 ...

Only a handful of synagogues are known to have survived long after the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492. MADRID (JTA) — Archaeologists working in a town in southwestern Spain have excavated ...

Spain's Catholic Church has ruled out taking part in such a fund if was only ... of which only 358 had been "proven" or were "plausible" while another 60 were under investigation. Sign up for new ...

“It is a great joy for me to welcome you to the house of St. Peter, to the home of the Church ... in new countries, the Holy Father told members of the Filipino diaspora living in Spain ...

Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday consecrated a world monument to family, the Sagrada Familia church, in Spain but faced a gay kiss-in protest before he attacked abortion and defended male-female marriage.

Many of Spain’s church bell towers that were automated in ... the only thing to do was to train new ones in how to toll the bells. And that’s where the idea of the school was born,” Pallas ...

The Catholic Church in Spain has decreed the excommunication and expulsion from consecrated life of the Poor Clare nuns of Belorado for committing schism. The Spanish bishops noted that ...

MADRID — Dozens of dogs and cats, a few parrots and a chicken queued up alongside their owners outside a church in Madrid on ... a popular annual ritual. In Spain, the feast day of Saint Anthony ...