In a speech in Brussels on Friday, Pope Francis denounced the sexual abuse of minors by priests as a "disgrace" that the ...

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

On a brutal day for the frail and aging Pope Francis, the king of Belgium, its prime minister and the rector of the Catholic ...

Earlier on Friday, Belgium's prime minister blasted the pontiff for the Catholic Church's horrific legacy, demanding "concrete steps" to come clean with the past and put victims' interests ahead of ...

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

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

He said, ‘I want a true Catholic, so I immediately ... It is a service I render to the Church. I also have the highest admiration for pope Francis’s message and how he tries to reach a wide ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday met with young adults ... “They form part of the framework of the social doctrine of the Church and, in the final analysis, have their root in the Gospel,” he said.

Dillon told VOA that while Pope Francis engages in interreligious dialogue in Asia, Europe and places like Belgium and Luxembourg remain very important to him and the Roman Catholic Church.

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.