Pope Francis made a surprise night-time visit to the Hope Happening, a festival of Catholic youth in Brussels on Saturday. (AP video by Paolo Santalucia) ...

The king of Belgium and its prime minister ripped into the institution Pope Francis heads for covering up abuse and for the Catholic Church's views on women and the LGBTQ+ community.

Francis repeated his view that women are the ‘fertile’ nurturers of the church, inducing grimaces in his audience during a speech.

Pope Francis’ burdensome trip through Belgium reached new lows on Saturday when defiant Catholic university women demanded to ...

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

Pope Francis has pledged to root out the “scourge” of clerical sexual abuse after Belgium’s prime minister urged him in ...

Pope Francis visited Belgium, a secularized Europe where religion is losing ground. He stressed the need for a courageous conversion of the Church in front of the Catholic Community. It was the first ...

The pope addressed more than 2,500 priests, deacons, religious sisters, seminarians, catechists, and bishops gathered inside ...

From the heart of Europe, where once towering Gothic cathedrals stood and religious vocations flourished, Pope Francis ...

As part of his trip to Belgium, Pope Francis made a surprise visit to Saint Gilles where he met with homeless and ...

Pope Francis addressed concerns of both students and professors, including social inequality, the climate crisis and the role ...

On Saturday, Pope Francis acknowledged that the abuse scandal had created "atrocious suffering and wounds," and undermined ...