The Church said most cases of abuse in ... celebrate the 600th anniversary of the world’s oldest Catholic university, in Louvain. Belgium has a history of clerical abuse and cover up.

The Catholic Church has been led for 2,000 years by men ... Child abuse 'shame' - The pope's three-day Belgium visit has been dominated by the Church's dark legacy of child sexual abuse, and ...

Pope Francis has been welcomed to Belgium with powerful speeches from both the prime minister and the king condemning the ...

And that was all before Francis met with the people most harmed by the Catholic Church in Belgium — the men and women who were raped and molested by priests as children. Seventeen abuse ...

And that was all before Francis met with the people most harmed by the Catholic Church in Belgium — the men and women who were raped and molested by priests as children and the single mothers ...

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo raised a “red flag” about the pope’s announcement in Belgium about opening the beatification cause ...

In their open letter addressed to the apostolic nuncio in Brussels, Franco Coppola; Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels Luc Terlinden, the primate of the Catholic Church in Belgium; and the seven ...

Pope Francis leaving Melsbroek Air Base at the end of a four-day visit to Belgium and Luxembourg ... Moreover, the head of the Catholic Church had also just announced his intention to begin ...

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to settle claims of clergy sexual abuse, marking the largest settlement of its kind with a Catholic archdiocese in the U.S.

At the Oct. 22 media briefing in Rome, Ambongo said that while Pope Francis’ pronouncements conform to “the wish of the Church in Belgium,” the late Catholic king of Belgium has been ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — On a brutal day for the frail and aging Pope Francis, the king of Belgium, its prime minister and the rector of the Catholic university that invited him here all ripped into the ...