After Germany and France, where people's disaffection towards the Catholic Church has increased due to the disastrous ...

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 ...

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.

Sept. 27 (UPI) --Pope Francis asked for forgiveness in Belgium for the Catholic church's clergy abuse scandal and its poor ...

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 ...

The Holy Father went on to call the late Catholic who chose to temporarily abdicate his throne rather than sign a law ...

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 ...

Most of the births were in Belgium, but 3,000 to 4,000 pregnant ... where he also reaffirmed that the Catholic Church must "seek forgiveness" for the scourge of child sexual abuse.

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 ...

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 ...