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

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.

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

Parts of the Roman Catholic Church are still failing to ensure clerical ... It also comes after Francis’ trip to Belgium where he faced strong criticism for the church’s handling of abuse ...

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.

The detailed global report from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors was the first since the body was set ...

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 ...