The students questioned why the Catholic church has so few women in top positions and why their intellectual contribution had often been disregarded.

During his visit to Belgium, Pope Francis faced significant criticism from the Catholic University of Louvain for his stance on women's roles in the church. The university's women demanded a paradigm shift,

Belgium’s prime minister has blasted Pope Francis for the Catholic Church’s horrific legacy of clerical sex abuse and cover-ups. Alexander De Croo demanded “concrete steps” to come clean with the

Pope Francis’ burdensome trip through Belgium has reached new lows. Defiant Catholic university women called Saturday for a “paradigm change” on women’s issues in the church and then expressed deep

Prime Minister Alexander De Croo’s speech was one of the most pointed ever directed at the pope during a foreign trip.

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 institution he heads for a spectrum of sins: for covering up cases of clergy sex abuse and being far behind the times on embracing women and the LGBTQ+ community in the church.

Pope Francis was sharply criticised on Saturday by one of Belgium's Catholic universities over his stance on the role of women in society, in a strongly worded press release issued just moments after the pontiff spoke at the college.