The Roman Catholic Church in Spain has beatified 522 people, most of them priests and nuns killed by ... amounted to a glorification of the Franco dictatorship. But the Church said those honoured ...

The arrival of foreign priests to Spain was timely. The secularization of Spanish society has been sharp over the past half a century, since the end of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco ...

Almost a decade ago the Spanish society was also shaken by allegations of the theft and trafficking of thousands of babies by nuns, priests and doctors, which started under Generalismo Franco ...