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Did Pope Benedict XVI really say the devil wants to destroy Spain?

November 15, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope Benedict XVI on April 21, 2007, in Vigevano, Italy. / Credit: miqu77/Shutterstock

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 15, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
A supposed comment by the late Pope Benedict XVI concerning Spain and the devil has been circulating on soci… […]

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Bishops in Spain call political deal to grant amnesty to Catalan secessionists immoral

November 15, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. / Credit: Flickr of La Moncloa – Government of Spain (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 15, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA).
Several Spanish bishops have spoken out in recent days against the deals reached by Pr… […]

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Thieves repent, sacramentally confess, and return stolen objects to chapel in Spain

November 13, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

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ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 13, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA).
A week after desecrating and robbing a chapel in the Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante in Spain, the thieves have sacramentally confessed and re… […]

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Pope receives posthumous letter from young Carmelite who wanted to attend WYD

August 4, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Spanish Carmelite Pablo María de la Cruz on the day of his religious profession. / Credit: Óscar García / Diocese of Salamanca

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 4, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has received a posthumous letter from the young Spanish … […]

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WYD: High turnout of Spanish youth signals faith alive in increasingly secular country

August 1, 2023 Catholic News Agency 4

Spanish pilgrims at World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, July 31, 2023. / Credit: Duarte Mourão Nunes/Flickr JMJ Lisboa 2023

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 1, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
Of all the young people from countries participating in World Yout… […]

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How St. Ignatius of Loyola became the patron saint of soldiers 

July 31, 2023 Catholic News Agency 5

A 17th-century statue of St. Ignatius of Loyola by Spanish sculptor Juan Martínez Montañés. / Jl FilpoC via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Washington D.C., Jul 31, 2023 / 02:15 am (CNA).
Besides being the founder of one of the largest religious orde… […]

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WYD: Young people ‘don’t need reefers or condoms’ to have a good time, Spanish bishop says

July 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

World Youth Day 2023 pilgrims. / Credit: Duarte Mourao/JMJ

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 28, 2023 / 08:30 am (CNA).
Bishop Demetrio Fernández of Córdoba, Spain, reflected on the upcoming World Youth Day (WYD) in Lisbon, Portugal, in his recent weekly l… […]

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21-year-old terminally ill Spanish Carmelite dies on eve of feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel

July 18, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Friar Pablo María de la Cruz Alonso Hidalgo and his family. / Credit: Diocese of Salamanca / Oscar García

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 18, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).
A 21-year-old Carmelite friar who had been admitted to a Carmel in Spain “in articulo mor… […]

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Clerical sex abuses crisis: Spanish priests hit with sanctions

July 13, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

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ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 13, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).
The Diocese of Mallorca in Spain has sentenced Father Julià Cifre Vandrell to three years of not celebrating Mass “in any place other than at his home… […]

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Expert decries “brutal discrimination” against medical conscientious objectors to abortion

July 9, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

null / Chinnapong via Shutterstock.

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 9, 2023 / 07:22 am (CNA).
The general coordinator of the National Association for the Defense of the Right to Conscientious Objection, attorney José Antonio Díez, decried the “brutal dis… […]

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