ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis called sexual abuse “demonic” on Friday as he weighed in on the latest sex assault ...

Will he visit Argentina? Why didn’t he denounce the death penalty in Singapore? Is he satisfied with the results of the ...

READ MORE: Pope Francis to visit East Timor as church sex abuse scandals there are met by silence John Paul’s visit, which culminated with a massive Mass on the seaside near Dili, helped draw ...

Pope Francis on Monday called for action on abuse of young people after arriving in East Timor, the Catholic-majority nation that has been shocked by several child sexual assault cases involving ...

In Belgium, the destination of Pope Francis' next trip scheduled for the end of the month, the perhaps most challenging topic he will face is the sexual abuse crisis. "There will be a meeting with ...

This isn’t about how East Timorese society views its national heroes, nor about how Asians apparently respond differently to allegations of abuse. Nor is it about Pope Francis needing to appease ...

But the issue of clerical sexual abuse is also hanging over this leg of the pope’s visit to the region as revelations of mistreatment concerning high profile East Timor clergy have emerged in ...

DILI – As Pope Francis begins his brief, two-day visit to East Timor, one of the key underlying issues he will have to grapple with is the clerical sexual abuse crisis, as the nation reels from ...

When Pope Francis becomes the first pontiff to ... people of Timor-Leste to take more effective measures to prevent sexual abuse," the Timor-Leste NGO Forum, a civil society coalition, wrote ...

Pope Francis received a raucous welcome as he arrived in East Timor to celebrate its recovery from a bloody and traumatic independence battle, even as he indirectly acknowledged an abuse scandal ...