Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, OFM Cap, the local ordinary the Archdiocese of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and ...

Pope John Paul II praised Baudouin in a 1995 general audience in which he said that 'he was a great guardian of the rights of the human conscience.' Photos of King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola. When ...

Mobutu Sese Seko and King Baudouin of Belgium at the Brussels airport. (Credit: Belga Archives.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – During his recent trip to Belgium at the end of September, Pope Francis ...

ROME (AP) — The Vatican has taken the first main step to implement Pope Francis’ wish that Belgium’s late king be beatified for having abdicated for a day rather than approve legislation to legalize ...

Pope Francis prays at the tomb of King Baudouin of Belgium in the crypt of the Church of Our Lady of Laeken in Brussels Sept. 28, 2024. Standing on either side of him are Queen Mathilde and King ...

Pope Francis during a Mass in Belgium’s national stadium in Brussels on Sunday gave a strong warning to Catholics about the sin of causing scandal. He also urged the Belgian bishops to bring the evil ...

Belgium’s Bachelor King Baudouin last week flew back to his dazzled homeland from the U.S. He had left Brussels three weeks before, a gloomy, aloof young monarch who seemed content to live in the ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's Queen Fabiola, widow of King Baudouin and queen between 1960 and 1993, died on Friday at the age of 86, the royal palace said. The Spanish-born queen, who was at the ...

The Holy Father went on to call the late Catholic who chose to temporarily abdicate his throne rather than sign a law legalizing abortion a man of faith who serves as an example for leaders today.

ROME (AP) — The Vatican has taken the first main step to implement Pope Francis’ wish that Belgium’s late king be beatified for having abdicated for a day rather than approve legislation to legalize ...