Father Michel Viot discusses his critical book about the Sauvé Report, which shook France and the whole Catholic Church in the fall of 2021, and denounces the partiality of its authors. Jean-Marc ...

France’s Catholic Church has paid financial compensation to 23 victims of child sexual abuse by priests or other church representatives under a recently launched reparation process, the body in charge ...

PARIS - A major French report released Tuesday found that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France's Catholic Church over the past 70 years, in France's first major ...

The Church in France is under pressure, according to the president of the French Catholic bishops' conference. But for Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, that is no cause for despair. "The Church in ...

An independent commission examining sex abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in France believes 3,000 child abusers have worked in the church over the past 70 years. ERIC CABANIS/AFP via Getty ...

Paris — An independent inquiry into alleged sex abuse of minors by French Catholic priests, deacons and other clergy has found some 216,000 victims from 1950 to 2020, a "massive phenomenon" that was ...

More than 800 anti-Christian incidents were reported in France in 2021. The provisional figures were announced on Feb. 10 as part of an ongoing study of anti-religious acts in the Western European ...

PARIS — An estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France's Catholic Church over the past 70 years, according to a report released Tuesday that represents the country's first major ...

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Pope Francis on Wednesday called a report detailing decades of abuse in the French Catholic Church “a moment of shame,” and called upon leaders of the Church to ensure “similar tragedies” never happen ...