More than 1,000 per cent increase in requests coincided with a documentary which included testimony from sex abuse survivors ...

But the Vatican spokesperson acknowledged in a rare preview that Francis will certainly raise Belgium's abuse record. "Clearly the pope is aware of the difficulty, and that for years there has ...

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

De Croo then talked of the damage that had been done by the hundreds of sexual abuse cases associated with the Catholic Church in Belgium. “We cannot ignore the painful wounds that exist within ...

For decades, the Church has been shaken by scandals across the world involving pedophile priests and the cover-up of their ...

Parts of the Roman Catholic Church are still failing to ensure clerical sexual abuse is reported adequately, Pope Francis’ ...

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 Vatican anti-abuse commission was established by Francis in 2013 and was the first of its kind. It has faced sharp ...

Revelations of Belgium's horrific abuse scandal have dribbled out in bits over a quarter-century, punctuated by the bombshell year in 2010, when the country's longest-serving bishop, Bruges Bishop ...

Thousands of Catholics in Belgium have demanded to be “debaptised” amid fury over the long history of clerical sex abuse and cover-ups in the church. Between July 1 2023 and June 30 this year ...

Pope Francis travels to Belgium this week as the once-staunchly Catholic country again confronts its appalling legacy of clergy sex abuse and institutional cover-up. He will receive a sobering ...

But Bruni acknowledged in a rare preview that Francis will certainly raise Belgium’s abuse record. “Clearly the pope is aware of the difficulty, and that for years there has been suffering in ...