Spain and Portugal are predominantly Catholic ... but because their monarchs aligned (and maintained the hegemony) of the Roman Catholic church-state. In England, on the other hand, King Henry ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died aged 88 on April ... in the Murcia region of Spain, not the funeral. Missing context. In the context of the ...

All Roman Catholics are ... with the Eastern Orthodox Church and then again with the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. There are an estimated 1.4 billion Catholic adherents around the world.

Pope Francis, the charismatic and conciliatory Argentine who moved to liberalize the Catholic Church, dramatically ... he spent a few years in Spain, continuing his studies, before returning ...