Pope Francis addressed the Belgian victims of clerical sexual abuse again on Saturday, offering words of contrition in a ...

In a speech in Brussels on Friday, Pope Francis denounced the sexual abuse of minors by priests as a "disgrace" that the ...

Belgium’s prime minister has blasted Pope Francis for the Catholic Church’s horrific legacy of clerical sex abuse and ...

On a brutal day for the frail and aging Pope Francis, the king of Belgium, its prime minister and the rector of the Catholic ...

Pope Francis has doubled down on his traditional views on abortion and women during his in-flight news conference coming home from Belgium. He has praised Belgium’s late King Baudouin as ...

The Vatican made the announcement on Sept. 26, coinciding with the start of the pope’s apostolic journey to Luxembourg and ...

Belgium’s prime minister has blasted Pope Francis for the Catholic Church’s horrific legacy of clerical sex abuse and ...

In Belgium’s Laeken Castle, Pope Francis confronted the Catholic Church’s long-standing clerical abuse crisis in the country, declaring unequivocally that “the Church should be ashamed ...

the rector of Leuven Catholic University, the 600th anniversary of which was the official reason for Francis’ trip to Belgium, told the pope that the abuse scandals had so weakened the church ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium’s prime minister blasted Pope Francis for the Catholic Church’s horrific legacy of clerical sex abuse and cover-ups here, demanding “concrete steps” to come clean ...

Pope Francis is urging Europe to be beacon of ... Even then, the head of the Catholic Church faced indifference and even hostility to core Vatican teachings on contraception and sexual morals ...