After the pope’s visit to Luxembourg and Belgium in late September, 524 people have signed a declaration published Oct. 16 in ...

Tickets were sold out in record time. All the seats for the Sunday Mass Pope Francis will celebrate September 29 at King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels were snapped up, with more than 35,000 people ...

In Belgium’s Laeken Castle, Pope Francis confronted the Catholic Church’s long-standing clerical-abuse crisis in the country, declaring unequivocally that “the Church should be ashamed ...

Pope Francis sought to encourage and reinvigorate the Catholic Church in Belgium, which has been disheartened by the abuse crisis in the first half of this century. He addressed the country’s ...

Pope Francis also doubled down on his traditional views on abortion and praised Catholic abuse victims for their conduct.

Belgium's King Philippe levelled direct criticism at the pontiff, saying it had "taken far too long for the cries to be heard ...

Pope Francis' statements on abortion during his trip to Belgium and later on the flight back to Rome sparked controversy in ...

Pope Francis said Friday the Catholic Church had to "seek forgiveness" for the "scourge" of child sexual abuse, during a visit to Belgium where the clergy's dark past looms large. In a speech to ...

Church attendance has dropped in Europe across the continent — in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland and Italy. And throughout European societies, the church faces thorny questions on gender ...

Philippe told Francis in a speech welcoming him to Belgium that it had taken the Church "far too long" to address the scandals. De Croo said it had "a long way to go" and that "words alone are not ...

Belgium has had a wretched legacy of abuse and cover-up, none more symbolic of the church's hypocrisy than the case of Bruges ...