Pope Francis urged Catholic bishops to be more transparent and aggressive in combatting child sex abuse in the Church during ...

The synod meeting includes 368 "members" with voting rights, mostly cardinals and bishops, but Francis has introduced reforms to increase the number of lay members. The 2023 synod was the first to ...

In a brief press conference on the plane returning from Belgium, Pope Francis answered questions including one on Israel’s ...

Pope Francis has pledged to root out the “scourge” of clerical sexual abuse after Belgium’s prime minster urged him in ...