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

Earlier on Friday, Belgium's prime minister blasted the pontiff for the Catholic Church's horrific legacy, demanding ...

Belgium’s prime minister has blasted Pope Francis for the Catholic Church’s horrific legacy of clerical sex abuse and ...

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

In Belgium’s Laeken Castle, Pope Francis confronted the Catholic Church’s long-standing clerical-abuse crisis in the country, ...

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

Pope Francis met with church officials at the Koekelberg Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Brussels on Saturday, after meeting ...

To sum up, Pope Francis faces a steep mountain to climb in Belgium in persuading a fairly jaded public to give the Catholic Church another chance – or, at least, to stop seeing it as the enemy.

“The certainty with which our church posits certain ethical ... University of Leuven is the oldest Catholic university in the “Low Countries” of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Traditionally a Catholic country, Belgium has seen a significant decline in church attendance in recent decades. Although the Vatican says about 72% of the 11.6 million population is Catholic ...

Pope Francis will be visiting Belgium on a trip starting Thursday ... now presides over the sacrament at a small but packed Don Bosco church while the main Sunday Mass at the city's big Catholic ...