Food & Drink: Eight Spanish wines to snap up now

Sam Wylie-Harris rounds up some top-notch styles and best buys from the biggest vineyard in the world. Salud! A playground for winemakers and pleasure-seekers, when it comes to vino, Spain’s got the lot. It’s one of our best loved holiday destinations and Spanish wines are quite the oenophile’s odyssey too, with reds young and old,... Read More

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July 27, 2020

Pope thanks pilgrim with disability who walked along Spain’s ‘Camino’

Pope Francis sent a letter of gratitude to a Spanish teen with an intellectual disability after the 15-year-old travelled more than 60 miles along the famed Camino de Santiago de Compostela. In a letter signed 21st July and published on the website of the Diocese of Malaga, Spain, the pope said he learned of Alvaro Calvante’s... Read More

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May 7, 2020

Pope advances sainthood cause of Italian millennial

Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of one woman and four men, including an Italian millennial who dedicated his brief life to spreading faith and happiness to his peers. The pope signed the decrees on 5th May during a meeting with Cardinal Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes. The pope recognised the... Read More

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May 1, 2020

Spanish bishops’ conference releases post-pandemic guidelines

While the Spanish government prepares to ease lockdown restrictions, the country’s bishops released guidelines to prepare for a gradual return of the faithful to church while respecting norms that prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. In a statement released on 29th April, the executive committee of the Spanish bishops’ conference said it hoped the... Read More

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April 28, 2020

Belfast GP walking virtual Spanish pilgrimage in driveway

A retired Belfast GP with incurable cancer is walking part of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in his driveway this week to raise money for the developing world. Father-of-five Martin McMullan, 57, is doing the equivalent of the stage from Logrono to Burgos in northern Spain and plans to complete 30 kilometres a day in... Read More

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January 22, 2020

Spanish bishops launch marriage prep course that could last up to three years

Catholic couples in Spain will undergo up to three years of marriage preparation under an initiative by their bishops to reverse the country’s high rates of divorce. The Spanish bishops launched Together on the Way (‘Juntos en Camino’), a program to help couples to succeed in their vocation to marriage amid a divorce rate that... Read More

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January 17, 2020

Spanish cardinal: ‘Marxist communism…has been reborn’ in the country

A Spanish cardinal warned Catholics that their country is on the verge of a communist revival. Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera of Valencia said the election of the coalition government in November had created a situation “more critical” than had been initially thought or believed. “Marxist communism, which seemed destroyed with the fall of the Berlin... Read More

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January 10, 2020

Spanish Church leaders concerned about government secularisation

Spanish Church leaders voiced concern for their country’s future after the government pledged to legalise euthanasia, secularise education and strip the Church of “improper assets”. “Spain faces a critical situation, a true emergency for our future,” Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera of Valencia told Catholics in a pastoral letter. He asked that special prayers and Masses... Read More

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May 8, 2019

London Bridge attack inquest: Spaniard ‘courageously’ tried to fight off terrorists with skateboard

Spaniard Ignacio Echeverria, 39, was stabbed to death as he ‘courageously’ tried to fight off the terrorist attackers with his skateboard, an inquest heard. He had been in the UK for over a year at the time of his death and was working as a financial crime analyst at HSBC. His family did not attend... Read More

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