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 ...

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 ...

Pilgrims from all over France and beyond gathered in Maid of Orléans’ hometown to celebrate this landmark anniversary, ...

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 ...

PARIS (AP) - France's Catholic Church announced on Monday that it would financially compensate sex abuse victims by selling property assets or taking out a loan if needed. French bishops said in a ...

Despite the pope's visit, the faith is in decline in France - Copyright AFP Sophie STUBER Despite the pope's visit, the faith is in decline in France - Copyright AFP ...

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 ...

Amid a record number of baptisms, turning the page on the abuse crisis and rapidly changing society, an "Observatory of Catholicism" was officially launched in June in Paris to produce regular, ...

A 72-year-old religious sister has been praised for her “extraordinary courage” after she sought to disarm a man stabbing a priest at a Catholic church in Nice, southeastern France. Sister ...

French authorities have opened an investigation into one of highest-ranking members of France’s Catholic Church, who admitted to sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl when he was a parish priest, more ...