More than 1,000 per cent increase in requests coincided with a documentary which included testimony from sex abuse survivors ...

Thousands of Catholics in Belgium have demanded to be “debaptised” amid fury over the long history of clerical sex abuse and cover-ups in the church. Between July 1 2023 and June 30 this year ...

De Croo then talked of the damage that had been done by the hundreds of sexual abuse cases associated with the Catholic Church in Belgium. “We cannot ignore the painful wounds that exist within ...

Rik Deville, who has been advocating on behalf of abuse survivors for over a quarter-century. Another unpleasant welcome has come from Belgium’s parliament, which spent the past year hearing ...

In his homily, concluding his trip to Belgium September 29, he did not spare the episcopate: “I ask everyone: do not cover up abuse! I ask the bishops: do not cover up abuse! Condemn the abusers ...

Pope Francis received a delegation of Belgian bishops, led by Archbishop Luc Terlinden of Mechelen-Brussels, in Rome on Friday. The meeting covered the Pope's recent visit to Belgium and the handling ...

Parts of the Roman Catholic Church are still failing to ensure clerical sexual abuse is reported adequately, Pope Francis’ ...

The Catholic Church needs to unify policies on compensating victims of sexual abuse by clergy, the Vatican's child protection ...

For decades, the Church has been shaken by scandals across the world involving pedophile priests and the cover-up of their ...

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to settle claims of clergy sexual abuse, marking the largest settlement of its kind with a Catholic archdiocese in the U.S.