News of the sexual abuse drew commentary and postings and is likely to have far-reaching ramifications on the Catholic Church in Europe and elsewhere. The commission revealed its shocking ...

which outsmarted and outlived the campaign of persecution against Jews and freethinkers unleashed by the Catholic Church and Portugal’s rulers in 1536. “This place was almost literally an ...

I thank God for giving me this occasion to meet all of you here at the Shrine of Fatima, the spiritual heart of Portugal ... identified with the Church and sensitive to the complex transformations ...