Topic: The Hague

Dutch want Catholic Church to address abuse cases

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Almost 2,000 people have declared themselves victims of sexual and physical abuse while they were minors in the care of the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands, an independent commission said Thursday.The investigation into abuses dating back to ...

Gerardus van der Leeuw

March 18, 1890, The Hague-d. ), Dutch Reformed theologian and historian of religions, who contributed significantly to the phenomenological (descriptive) analysis of religious experience.. Leeuw proposed that a nonrational (mystical) tradition underlies the evolution of religious manifestations.