There’s a time and a place for everything, they say, and tourists are being given a reminder of that when they try to enter the sacred interior of one of Spain’s most visited monuments.
Spain on Monday accused the Vatican of "interference" in its internal affairs after the papal envoy in Madrid criticised government plans to move dictator General Francisco Franco's remains from a vast mausoleum.
The Bishop of Alcalá de Henares is under investigation after it emerged that conversion therapy courses which told homosexuals to "pray away the gay" were being held in his diocese. .
A former gym teacher at a Catholic school accused of sexually assaulting students went on trial Monday in Barcelona, as a growing trickle of abuse allegations shakes the Church in Spain.
A trickle of accusations of sexual abuse against priests in schools and seminaries is starting to erode the wall of silence in Catholic Spain, whose Church representatives are set to attend a major Vatican meeting on child protection.
Spain's Catholic Church wants to "eradicate" cases of sexual abuse of minors within the church and not cover them up, the president of the Spanish bishops' conference said Monday.
A 24-year-old man from Jaen has been ordered to pay a fine for offending the church by posting a photoshopped image of his own face on a revered statue of Christ.
The head of the Catholic Church in Spain has criticised a declaration of independence approved by Catalonia's regional parliament last month, calling it "serious and disturbing", a spokesman said
Monday.
At sunset on Saturday evening dozens of Muslims from across Spain’s southern city of Granada gathered in a park in the city and prayed together before breaking their daily Ramadan fast.
A 23-year-old man from Jaen has become the latest Spaniard to fall foul of religious authorities after angering them by posting a photoshopped image of his own face on a revered statue of Christ.
Three women, who carried a giant plastic vagina through the streets of Seville as part of a feminist protest mimicking the Easter processions, could face jail after the action was deemed a “religious hate crime”.
A Spanish court on Tuesday acquitted a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing a teenage altar boy, in a case in which Pope Francis had pushed for an investigation.
The parish priest from the Galician town of Cuntis has apologised for his “misguided” carnival costume which saw him posing on a float as the Playboy founder along with men dressed as Playboy bunnies.
The Bishop of Mallorca has been removed from his post by the Vatican after complaints that he had conducted an "improper relationship" with his married secretary.
A spokeswoman for Madrid's city council went on trial on Thursday for her role in a protest when she was still a university student during which she bared her breasts in a chapel.
Dogs, cats, rabbits and even iguanas, many decked out in colourful sweaters to keep warm, trooped into Spanish churches on Sunday for a blessing on the Day of Saint Anthony, patron saint of animals.
A Madrid Church has chosen to highlight the plight of Syrian refugees this Christmas by recreating the nativity scene using the image of drowned three-year-old Aylan Kurdi.
