LISBON, Portugal (AP) — More than 4,800 individuals may have been victims of child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church and 512 alleged victims have already come forward to speak out ...

(Credit: Armando Franca/AP.) Listen LISBON, Portugal — The head of a lay committee looking into historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church said Tuesday the problem in the past ...

which in Portugal are backlogged and notoriously slow to reach decisions, often taking many years. Lisbon Cardinal Manuel Clemente said the church would do only what courts determined it must do.

which in Portugal are backlogged and notoriously slow to reach decisions, often taking many years. Lisbon Cardinal Manuel Clemente said the church would do only what courts determined it must do.

“I want to see the church get closer to the people ... AP reporters Helena Alvez in Lisbon, Portugal, and Almudena Calatrava in Buenos Aires contributed.

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, ...

Francis was speaking in Lisbon at the start of a five-day visit ... was "of the path of reconciliation that the Portuguese Church in Portugal has been following in this area, putting victims ...

Senior Portuguese church officials had previously claimed that only a handful of cases had occurred. (AP Photo/Armando Franca, file) LISBON, Portugal — More than 4,800 individuals may have been ...