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 ...

Usually, diplomatic protocol keeps outrage out of the public speeches. The PM's tone underscored just how raw the abuse ...

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

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

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.

In Belgium, Francis is due to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the country’s main Catholic universities ... door debate about the future of the church. Francis' scheduled audiences on Monday ...

Fifteen Catholic Church abuse victims met in Brussels on Saturday with representatives of the bishops to discuss the details of their upcoming meeting with the Pope. The hour-long meeting is set to ...

This is the result of a historic division between the Catholic Church and those against it that has existed in Belgium since before the creation of the country in 1830. The two communities agreed to ...

In Belgium, Francis is due to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the country’s main Catholic universities ... which involves long days of closed-door debate about the future of the church. Francis' ...

During his trip to Belgium, Francis will commemorate the 600th anniversary of the country’s main Catholic universities and address ... will engage in in-depth discussions on the future of the Church.