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 ...

At the end of their plenary assembly in November, the bishops knelt in an act of penance in Lourdes as an image of a weeping child was unveiled and an abuse victim shared their testimony. Jean-Marc ...

These were just three of the 29 churches across northern France that, a court ruled, were targeted last summer by Raphaël ...

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 — 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 ...

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 ...

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Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An independent commission published a report on Tuesday that documented the sexual abuse within the French Catholic ...