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 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.
Pope Leo XIV has received a group of six victims of abuses by the Catholic clergy from different countries and several members of the Global Board of Abuse Victims (ENDING Clergy Abuse, ECA) this Monday in the Vatican. The victims believe that this meeting, which has lasted about an hour, has been “historic” and “hopeful” in view of greater cooperation with the Catholic Church in the future. It is the first such meeting that the pontiff maintain…
Pope Leo XIV meets with clergy abuse surviors on heels of Vatican critical report
Pope Leo met with survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy for the first time on Monday, participants said, days after the Vatican's child protection commission accused senior Church leaders of being too slow to help victims.
The sovereign pontiff discussed this Monday with representatives of victims of clergy abuses in more than 30 countries.
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