"Today, words alone do not suffice. We also need concrete steps," De Croo told Francis and an audience of royals, church ...

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Pope Francis told university professors to “seek the truth” in a speech critiquing academia’s tendencies toward relativism and “a technocratic culture” during a visit to a 600-year-old ...

Pope Francis is still widely popular in several Latin American countries. But the portion of people who still see him favorably in his native Argentina has plunged by almost 30 percentage points ...

The Vatican said the encounter lasted more than two hours, and that the pope listened to them and "expressed shame for what they suffered as children". Francis has made addressing abuse by clergy ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Belgium’s prime minister has blasted Pope Francis for the Catholic Church’s horrific legacy of clerical ...

Pope Francis at his general audience on Wednesday called pornography a work of the devil and warned Christians to reject this and other temptations accessed through the internet. “Any cellphone ...

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

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 ...

Pope Francis on Friday said he was "saddened" to learn about a little-known scandal that still troubles Belgium: the "forced ...

Despite suffering a mild flu Monday, Pope Francis still plans to travel later this week to Luxembourg and Belgium to visit a once-solid bastion of Roman Catholic culture that now has decreasing ...

Belgium's prime minister on Friday blasted Pope Francis for the Catholic ... revelations about Ireland's so-called "mother and baby homes". After World War II and through to the 1980s, many ...