US EditionPope meets with board of global organization of clergy sexual abuse victims to talk zero-tolerance
- On Monday, Pope Leo XIV met Ending Clergy Abuse and agreed to maintain a permanent dialogue, the global organization campaigning to universalize the U.S. church's abuse policy.
- Advocates want a universal zero-tolerance policy that calls for permanent removal from ministry of any priest who abuses a child, and Pope Leo XIV acknowledged 'there was great resistance'.
- Previously, Popes Francis and Benedict met individual victims but avoided activist groups, while Pope Leo XIV engaged survivors and led victim-listening in the Peruvian bishops conference.
- Survivors will press for reforms as Ending Clergy Abuse told Pope Leo XIV it wants to work with him and the Vatican, and Tim Law said Leo acknowledged 'there was great resistance'.
- The meeting followed his Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, where Pope Leo XIV canonized seven new saints on Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025.
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Pope Leo XIV met with victims of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church for the first time after taking office in May.
The meeting with members of the ECA network marked the Pope's first public contact with victims of abuse in the Church. Leon XIV reaffirmed the commitment to the prevention and repair of these crimes.
First meeting between Pope Leo and a group of victims of abuse by priests. The Pontiff saw the activists of the Eca, the Ending Clergy Abuse, a network active especially in the United States. The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors had presented a few days ago the Annual Report highlighting the slowness with which we proceed in some dioceses in dealing with the scourge of abuse. Among the critical cases had been reported that of I…
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