Gordon was a reporter for TIME, based in the London bureau. Pope Francis takes part in a welcome ceremony with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa at the National Palace in Belem, Lisbon, ...

Requests for financial compensation for victims of sexual abuse committed in the Church in Portugal will be analyzed by two commissions, one to analyze the cases and the other to determine the amounts ...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Pope Francis met with survivors of clergy sexual abuse in Portugal on Wednesday and blasted members of the country’s Catholic hierarchy for their response to the long-ignored ...

FATIMA, Portugal (Reuters) -Portugal's Catholic Church said on Thursday it will financially compensate victims of child sexual abuse within the Church, setting the amounts to be paid on a case-by-case ...

Lisbon, Portugal — Pope Francis is in Portugal this week for what's been called the "Catholic Woodstock" — the church's "World Youth Day" festival. Hundreds of thousands of young people are taking ...

Pope Francis gives his homily during vespers with Portuguese bishops, priests, deacons, religious, seminarians and pastoral workers at the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 2, 2023. (CNS ...

Francis wasted no time in addressing the biggest stain on today's Catholic Church, meeting with sex abuse survivors behind closed doors on the first day of the summit. Arriving in Lisbon for the ...

You'd think you were at a music festival -- jubilant crowds singing and dancing, wearing face paint, even having a beer in some cases. And the young people packing the streets of Lisbon are here for ...

As Pope Francis officially launched a gathering of hundreds of thousands of Catholic young people here in the Portuguese capital, one direct message was repeated throughout multiple speeches — lest ...

LISBON, Portugal — Pope Francis met Wednesday with survivors of clergy sexual abuse in Portugal and blasted members of the country’s Catholic hierarchy for their response to the long-ignored scandal, ...