– Supernatural Spanish Episcopal Conference has presented the campaign Xtantos for the year 2025. On this occasion the slogan is "Line 105 Xtantos" and resumes the basis of bus trips, as already happened in 2024. However, for this new campaign the members of the Secretariat for the Support of the Church have promoted the creation of routes at the local level in all the dioceses of Spain so that citizens can see the work that the Church carries out on a social and spiritual level throughout the country.
As explained by the director of the Secretariat, José María Albalad, with this initiative they want to "make visible the closeness of the Church to the whole of society. A Church that "is close to you, wherever you are and even if you do not see it".
A local church
The Episcopal Conference stresses that "checking the box 105 is a simple way to collaborate with the support of the Church that has no cost for the taxpayer". As the bishops' web page indicates, if we leave this box blank "it is the State that decides where to allocate that 0.7 % of our taxes. Likewise, it is possible to simultaneously check the boxes for the Catholic Church and the one for social purposes, without paying more or getting back less".
With the aim of accounting for how the contribution of the more than nine million people who mark the X helps, the Secretariat for the Support of the Church has invested 3 million euros in the 2025 campaign, which is less than 1 % of the amount raised last year. Thanks to this initiative to make Church activity visible, the Episcopal Conference hopes that every Spanish citizen will see that "the Church is close to you, wherever you are and even if you don't see it."
The first route organized for the Xtantos 2025 campaign covered various parts of Valladolid and was attended by a hundred people. The chosen ones were eight women and seven men, of whom only three checked the box 105. After visiting some apartments for immigrants, the work of accompanying the elderly, a shelter and a spirituality center, and seeing the work done by a parish in a town "where no one reaches", fourteen of the fifteen people said that this year they do want to check the box in favor of the Church.
Gratitude and hope for 2025
Monsignor Vicente Rebollo, head of the Secretariat, took part in the press conference to transmit "two words: gratitude and hope". He thanked all the contributors, indicating that "what allows the support of the Church is the contribution of many people of their time, their qualities and, of course, their money".
Likewise, the bishop expressed his hope that more and more Spanish citizens will be encouraged to collaborate with the Church and its tasks "of great social relevance".
Xtantos 2025 campaign technical data
The Xtantos 2025 campaign will run from March 21 to June 30. It will be present in all digital formats, as well as in Renfe circuits and airports. In addition, the Xtantos newspaper, which reports on the campaign and the work of the Church, has a circulation of almost one million copies, half of which will be distributed to all the parishes in the country. On the other hand, there will be posters in Spanish, Basque and Catalan, many of which will appear in national newspapers.
