Victims of sexual abuse by Spanish clergy can finally apply for compensation after the Catholic Church relented and struck a deal with the government.

Spain's Roman Catholic Church has reached an agreement with the government to compensate victims of sexual abuse by members of the clergy. The accord follows complaints that religious leaders had failed to tackle the issue adequately.

Spain's Catholic Church, reeling from a clergy sexual abuse scandal, agreed with the government on Thursday to compensate victims of abuse whose cases have expired under the statute of limitations or where the perpetrator has died.

The accord, signed on Thursday by Justice Minister Félix Bolaños and the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE), establishes a comprehensive reparations system. It specifically targets victims who are unable to pursue justice through the courts because the statutes of limitations have expired or the perpetrators have died.

A Ukrainian Catholic church claims Collier’s rejection of a proposed chapel amounts to religious discrimination under the First Amendment. Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church is seeking a preliminary injunction in a 60-page lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Pittsburgh.

Catholic conference SEEK 2026 breaks attendance records with over 26,000 young people across three cities, marking 24% growth and church vitality.

The final stage of demolition at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Maria Stein took place today. People watched heavy machinery get to work, knocking down what was left of the church from far away and up close on Wednesday morning. The bell tower was the final section of the church left to be carefully brought down.

Thompson said she is the first Roman Catholic Woman Priest in Kansas, but she is one of hundreds of women Catholic priests around the world. “We are still the church, but we are different in that we open the tent,” Thompson said. “We want everyone to feel like they are welcome.”