Pope Francis heads for Luxembourg and Belgium on a trip to a dwindling flock
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is traveling to once-strong bastions of Christianity in the heart of Europe to try to reinvigorate a Catholic flock that is dwindling in the face of secular trends and abuse scandals that have largely emptied the continent’s magnificent cathedrals and village churches.
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The move was described as a “precaution” in the statement from the Vatican days before he is to embark on a trip to Belgium ...
Pope Francis is travelling to once-strong bastions of Christianity in the heart of Europe to try to reinvigorate a Catholic ...
After his arrival to Belgium Thursday, Pope Francis told civil authorities the next day to make peacemaking a priority and ...
On his first full day in Belgium on Sept. 27, Pope Francis celebrated a morning Mass in private before making his way to the ...
For four days, Pope Francis will meet with Belgium and its Catholic Church, which has had to rethink its role in a society ...
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Belgium’s prime minister has blasted Pope Francis for the Catholic Church’s horrific legacy of clerical sex abuse and ...
Pope Francis has pledged to root out the “scourge” of clerical sexual abuse after Belgium’s prime minster urged him in ...
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