Pope Francis has pledged to root out the “scourge” of clerical sexual abuse after Belgium’s prime minster urged him in unusually frank terms to take concrete action. Francis was addressing ...
“The church must be ashamed,” the pope said in a surprise departure from his ... must “do everything – everything possible – so that this does not happen again.” Pope Francis was ...
Pope Francis, who recently returned from a gruelling 12-day trip, cancelled his public meetings Monday due to "light flu symptoms", so he could rest ahead of a visit to Belgium this week, the Vatican ...