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.

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 ...

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 ...

The historic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint-Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, was ravaged by arson on the night of Sept. 2.

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 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 ...