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.

Pope Francis has been welcomed to Belgium with powerful speeches from both the prime minister and the king condemning the ...

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 ...

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo raised a “red flag” about the pope’s announcement in Belgium about opening the beatification cause ...

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. Seventeen abuse ...

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 ...

The Catholic Church was ashamed and humiliated by the clerical sexual abuse in Belgium, Pope Francis said on Friday, stating that it “must be ashamed and try to resolve the situation with ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...