Pedro Strecht, a psychiatrist who heads Portugal's Independent Committee for the Study of Child Abuse in the Catholic Church, attends a news conference in Lisbon Oct. 11, 2022. World Youth Day ...

LISBON, Portugal -- When a panel of experts read aloud some of the harrowing accounts they had collected from recently discovered victims of child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church, the ...

LISBON, Portugal (CNS) -- A Catholic Church that has grown weary in countries shaken by the clerical sexual abuse crisis and cultural trends toward secularism must look anew to Jesus to revive ...

Portugal is starting the atoning process for clergy sex abuse. Here's what other countries have done The Catholic Church in the United States, Australia and some other countries began coming to ...

Approximately 85% of Portugal’s population identifies as Catholic and the church is generally held in high esteem in Portuguese society.

A Catholic Mass in English will be held on Sunday, July 20, at 4pm, in Carvoeiro at the chapel on the cliffs, Ermida da Nossa Senhora da Encarnação. Everyone is welcome even if you do not normally ...

The Independent Committee for the Study of Child Abuse in the Catholic Church, established by Portuguese bishops about a year ago, looked into allegations of abuse starting in 1950.

Requests for financial compensation for victims of sexual abuse committed in the Church in Portugal will be analyzed by two commissions.

Pope Francis blasted Portugal’s Catholic Church leaders for the “scandal” of clergy sex abuse as he kicked off a trip to the European country, saying their actions had helped drive ...

The city of Porto in northern Portugal takes pride in its beaches, old churches and famous port wine.

Pope Francis is making a five-day visit next week to Portugal, where a scandal that erupted earlier this year over Catholic Church sex abuse is still simmering.