Pope Francis wrapped up a troubled visit to Belgium on Sunday with a Mass to beatify a 17th century mystic, after dashing the ...

Pope Francis presided over an open-air mass in Brussels on Sunday, capping a three-day visit to Belgium that grappled with ...

The Catholic Louvain University, the Francophone campus of Belgium’s storied Catholic university, issued a scathing statement ...

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

Pope Francis said Saturday the Catholic Church must learn from victims of child sexual abuse, as he was pressed on the issue ...

Pope Francis was pressed firmly by Belgium's king and premier on Friday for more concrete action to address sexual abuse by ...

Pope Francis sought to encourage and reinvigorate the Catholic Church in Belgium, which has been disheartened by the abuse ...

Pope Francis was challenged by Belgian students Saturday about women’s place in the Catholic Church, after paying tribute to ...

Belgium's prime minister on Friday blasted Pope Francis for the Catholic Church's horrific legacy of clerical sex abuse and ...

“One of the roots of violence stems from the abuse of power when we use the positions we have to crush or manipulate others,” he added, vowing that the Catholic Church would learn from the victims.

Pope Francis said Friday that the Catholic Church must "seek forgiveness" for the "scourge" of child sexual abuse, during a ...

26, coinciding with the start of the pope’s apostolic journey to Luxembourg and Belgium. The newly established ... who died in prison. The Catholic Church survived, but with great suffering ...