Pope Leo to Meet Survivors of Abuse by Clergy in Latin America, Vatican Says
The Holy See says the encounters will focus on healing, prevention and making the Church safer for survivors.
- On Tuesday, the Vatican announced Pope Leo XIV will meet with clergy sexual abuse survivors during his upcoming Apostolic Journey to Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru, aiming to express closeness to those who have suffered violence within the Church.
- Continuing the practice of predecessors Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, Leo has recently held similar private encounters with survivors in Spain and France, prioritizing testimonies regarding what he describes as a "scourge" and "scandal."
- The Pope spent two decades as a missionary priest in Peru, serving as a designated bishop to hear victims of the abusive Sodalitium Christianae Vitae movement, and he previously met with fifteen survivors at the Vatican, including David Ryan from Dublin.
- "Several meetings are planned" for the Nov. 6-17 visit, though the Vatican has not specified locations; the Pope added that the Church must help survivors find healing, as abuse wounds faith and destroys lives.
- Argentina has faced a "wretched reckoning" with abuse, with victims demanding action regarding cases involving his predecessor, as the Apostolic Journey proceeds following Leo's Oct 13 lung cancer surgery.
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