The 2,500-page document — the work of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE) — revealed that at least 330,000 children had been sexually abused by more than 3,000 ...

The total number of abuse cases involving minors in the Catholic Church in France rises to 330,000, when those committed by laypeople are included.

The Catholic Church in France has called on prosecutors to investigate allegations of serious sexual abuse by the once venerated priest Abbé Pierre, who died in 2007. Only the courts had the ...

PARIS — An independent commission examining sex abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in France believes 3,000 child abusers — two-thirds of them priests — have worked in the church over ...

Jean-Marc Sauvé holds his report on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church as he attends a round table during the Corref, in Lourdes, southwestern France, on Nov. 17.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis expressed “shame” for himself and the Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday for the scale of child sexual abuse within the church in France and acknowledged failures ...