After Vatican II, a number of the most prominent periti ... called the 1979 inquiry into Father Schillebeeckx’s works “a scandal” because “it has persuaded many that the concern of ...

His visit comes on the heels of the 25th anniversary of the U.N.-backed referendum that paved the way for overwhelmingly ...

Pope Francis has weighed in on the latest sex assault revelations that have further discredited a legendary French priest, ...

even as he indirectly acknowledged an abuse scandal involving its Nobel Peace Prize-winning hero. Timorese jammed Francis' motorcade route into town from the airport, waving Vatican and Timorese ...

Pope Francis landed in the island nation of Timor-Leste on Monday in one of the most controversial stops on his tour of Asian ...

The scandal set off ... but the Vatican revealed in 2022 that he had been sanctioned for sexually abusing young boys. Belo was allowed by St. John Paul II to retire quietly in 2002, and the ...

Local authorities estimate that a crowd of 600,000 gathered for the pope’s Mass, the Vatican told reporters ... after Pope John Paul II in 1989, but it’s the first papal visit for the country ...