Belgium’s Bishop Vangheluwe laicized 14 years after admitting to abusing nephew The decision to laicize Bishop Vangheluwe came after repeated calls by the Belgian bishops for intervention on the abuse case from the Vatican. News Michael Haynes • Mar 21, 2024Mar 22, 2024
Leading cardinal of Belgium reflects on 2019: Brexit bad, atheism fully respectable Jozef De Kesel, the primate of Belgium, had a number of political opinions to express regarding the past year. News Jeanne Smits, Paris correspondent • Jan 10, 2020Jun 18, 2021
Young people receive solid Catholic formation during LifeSite-sponsored program in Rome Participants are learning how to better serve the culture of life. News Jeanne Smits, Paris correspondent • Oct 2, 2019Apr 29, 2023
VIDEO: Pope Francis’ disturbing support of a Cardinal caught covering up sex abuse On Episode 5 of The John-Henry Westen Show, we discuss Pope Francis' disturbing support for a liberal Catholic cardinal. Blogs John-Henry Westen • Apr 16, 2019Apr 29, 2023
Admirers mourn death of liberal Belgian cardinal who was a huge Pope Francis supporter Cardinal Godfried Danneels helped get Jorge Bergoglio elected, but he also will be remembered for telling a clerical sex-abuse victim to remain silent. News Dorothy Cummings McLean • Mar 19, 2019Jun 18, 2021
Why did Pope Francis write such a strange paragraph about Cardinal Danneels? It almost comes off as a thumb of the nose to the Catholic faithful. Opinion Phil Lawler • Mar 15, 2019Jun 18, 2021
Dissident cardinal who covered up sex abuse dies. Pope praises him as ‘zealous pastor’ Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels, who just died at 85, admitted to being part of a group of prelates who conspired to elect Pope Francis. News Claire Chretien • Mar 14, 2019Jun 18, 2021
Belgian Catholic sex abuse study finds 76% of priests’ victims were male Yet another study shows the link between homosexuality and clerical sex abuse. Blogs Maike Hickson • Feb 13, 2019Jun 18, 2021
Pope Francis personally intervenes to dissolve flourishing, faithful priestly order Rome has dismantled the Fraternity of the Holy Apostles, a thriving, orthodox order in Belgium. News Jeanne Smits, Paris correspondent • Apr 23, 2018Jun 18, 2021
Bishops condemn Catholic television channel that rejects Francis papacy The Episcopal Conference of Colombia considers Teleamiga in 'schism' for questioning Amoris Laetitia and other papal actions. News Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent • Aug 10, 2017Jun 18, 2021