A French cardinal, an official and former bishop in the Catholic church, said he abused a 14-year-old girl in a statement.. French Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard admitted to the abusive behavior in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

About 190 victims of child sexual abuse by priests or other church representatives have been promised financial compensation so far from France’s Catholic Church under a sweeping reparations program, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The founder of the Emmaues association, the French Catholic priest Abbe Pierre appears on the TV programm "La Marche du Siecle" in ...

An independent commission examining sex abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in France believes 3,000 child abusers — two-thirds of them priests — have worked in the church over the past 70 years.

Catholic priests in France will be forced to wear scannable QR codes to signal whether they are sex offenders as part of a national crackdown on abuse, according to church officials. Under the new ...