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

On his first full day in Belgium on Sept. 27, Pope Francis celebrated a morning Mass in private before making his way to the ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Pope Francis was pressed firmly by Belgium's king and premier on Friday for more concrete action to ...

Prime Minister Alexander De Croo's speech was one of the most pointed ever directed at the pope during a foreign trip.

Pope Francis, who was visiting Belgium Friday, said the abuse of minors is the Catholic Church’s “shame and humiliation”. The ...

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

The pope thanked them for their courage in coming forward and expressed his feelings of shame for what they experienced ...

Prime Minister Alexander De Croo's speech was one of the most pointed ever directed at the pope during a foreign trip.

The pope addressed academics at KU Leuven, a Belgian Catholic research university, on Friday afternoon to mark the 600th ...

Prime Minister Alexander De Croo’s speech was one of the most pointed ever directed at the pope during a foreign trip.

The prime minister’s speech at the start of Pope Francis’ visit was one of the most pointed ever directed at the pope during a foreign trip and underscored just how raw the abuse scandal still is in ...

Belgium's authorities rather directly called on Francis to “hear the cry” of the victims of pedocriminality, as well as of ...