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Pope 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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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.
·Portugal
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Pope Leo XIV held his first meeting with a group of victims of sexual abuse by priests on Monday, in what one participant described as a "free" discussion about what the Church should do.
·Vilnius, Lithuania
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