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The reality the Spanish Catholic Church continues to hide: Seven cardinals and 61 bishops implicated in covering up child abusers for decades

EL PAÍS launched an investigation into child sexual abuse by members of the Spanish Church in 2018 and maintains a database updated with all known cases. If you know of a case that has not come to light, you can write to: abusos@elpais.es. If it is a case in Latin America, the email address is: abusosamerica@elpais.es.

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The cover of the music record The letter that Provincial Superior Ramón Alaix wrote to Superior General Peter Hans Kolvenbach, suggesting that a pedophile priest be relocated and given treatment.Brother Marino González with a class at the school of Talavera de la Reina in the late 1970s.

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Pope Leo XIV, flanked by archbishop of Barcelona cardinal Juan José Omella, meets with Spanish seminarians at the Vatican on February 28, 2026.

In address to Spanish parliament, Pope Leo warns against global polarization and migrant discrimination

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Pope Leo XIV in Madrid on Monday.

Pope Leo XIV delivered a historic speech on Monday inside Spanish parliament in a joint session of both houses, where he stressed that the moral value of political decisions must prevail “over mutable social consensus” and lamented “the permanent denigration of the adversary.”

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