All the clergy are against the new law.

For the first time in the history of the Catholic Church, bishops from around the world have been meeting at the Vatican to confront the issue of the sexual abuse of children by clergy.

Spanish history is replete with official anti-Semitism: the 14th-century massacres of Jews in Seville, Córdoba and elsewhere, incited by a prominent Catholic clergyman; the Spanish Inquisition and forced religious conversions, beginning in the 15th century; and the expulsion of an estimated 70,000 Jews by decree of Ferdinand and Isabella.

The clergyman has married three couples this week.

Bishops, archbishops and abbots composed the high clergy.

At first they rejected the proposal, but a clergyman urged them to accept.

An ecumenical council is a general worldwide conference of any church’s clergy and theologians who meet together, with the goal of agreeing on doctrines and practices.