Catholic Church in Belgium honors sex abuse victims
The Catholic Church in Belgium on Saturday took part in a day of recognition for victims of sexual abuse by priests, seven years after a paedophile scandal rocked the institution. Church leaders and victims of sex abuse spoke to an audience of around a hundred people in a ceremony in the National Basilica of the Sacred Heart also known as the Koekelberg Basilica in the Belgian capital. The event demonstrates the Church's will to "resist a culture of silence", said Cardinal Jozef De Kesel.