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The Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Cortes Generales, the upper house being the Senate of Spain, in Madrid. (Credit: Government of Spain via Wikimedia.)

Spanish health minister faces criminal complaint for downplaying adverse consequences of abortion

  • Oct 15
  • Fionn Shiner

Victims protest inaction from Portuguese bishops on financial compensation

  • Oct 6
  • Eduardo Campos Lima
Miniature replicas of the new central tower that will crown the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia, making it the largest Christian church in Europe, are displayed during a press conference in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti/AP.)

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia is ready to raise its highest tower and become Europe’s tallest church

  • Sep 19
  • Joseph Wilson, 
    Associated Press
A small chapel on a hillside overlooking the Aegean Sea near the village of Kardiani on the island of Tinos, Greece, on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. (Credit: Petros Giannakouris/AP.)

A Greek island has 1,000 private chapels. Families maintain them for faith and community

  • Sep 16
  • Giovanna Dell'Orto, 
    Associated Press
Pilgrims and tourists rest in front of the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (Credit: Lalo Villar/AP.)

Pilgrims turn Spain’s Santiago de Compostela into the world’s latest overtourism flashpoint

  • Sep 15
  • Teresa Medrano, 
    Associated Press
Supporters of Spain’s far-right Vox party wave flags during a rally in Murcia, Spain, Wednesday Nov. 14, 2018. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti/AP.)

Spanish bishops in crosshairs of the far-right party

  • Aug 12
  • Fionn Shiner
A crowd gathers in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, where newly elected Pope Leo XIV will deliver a blessing from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, May 11, 2025. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

Warsaw archbishop asks Vatican to defrock Polish priest charged with the killing of a homeless man

  • Jul 28
  • Associated Press
A rainbow by a church. (Credit: Nikola Tomašić/Unsplash.)

Germany approved guidelines for promoting ‘Fiducia supplicans blessings’ during Sede Vacante

  • Jul 21
  • José Lorenzo, 
    Religión Digital
Jesuit Father Josep Lluís Iriberri points towards Manresa, where his group of pilgrims will conclude the Ignatian way pilgrimage, in Spain on July 9, 2025. (Credit: Joseph Wilson/AP.)

One tireless Jesuit keeps alive a pilgrim path for St. Ignatius in Spain

  • Jul 15
  • Joseph Wilson, 
    Associated Press

Europe’s bishops hope Pope Leo will move the needle with Trump admin

  • May 24
  • Elise Ann Allen

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Pope Leo receives a purebred Arabian horse

  • Oct 16
  • Crux Staff

Pope Leo urges world leaders ‘not to look the other way’ in fighting global hunger

  • Oct 16
  • Giada Zampano, 
    Associated Press

Vatican report says clergy sex abuse victims need reparations and tangible sanctions to heal

  • Oct 16
  • Nicole Winfield, 
    Associated Press

Brazil’s Lula meets with Pope Leo and tries to keep friendship he had with Francis

  • Oct 16
  • Eduardo Campos Lima