French survivors of clergy sexual abuse who met with Pope Leo XIV in Lourdes said they were struck by the pontiff’s deep ...

Before the papal visit, mosaics at Lourdes by Marko Rupnik, a Slovenian priest facing a Vatican trial over abuse allegations, were covered. Five women who have accused him of abuse wrote to Leo last ...

Though Leo had met with victims of clerical sex abuse at the Vatican and during his June trip to Spain, his 90-minute meeting with victims in France was especially high stakes due to the local ...

[A nine-minute video interview with Pau University emeritus professor Marc Artzrouni of Ending Clergy Abuse, criticizing Pope Leo’s decision not to meet with representatives of survivors’ groups, and ...

An hour after meeting with Pope Leo XIV in Lourdes on Sunday evening, the seven survivors of clerical sexual abuse shared the ...

After his meeting this evening with abuse survivors, the pope went to a solemn candlelight procession from the Grotto of Lourdes to the front of its basilica, where he continued the prayer service ...

Pope Leo XIV spent a hectic third day in France on Sunday encouraging its hard-pressed bishops and priests, meeting victims of the sexual abuse scandal and defending the Church’s opposition to the ...

On Sunday in Lourdes, Pope Leo XIV met seven survivors of clerical sexual abuse, who praised the meeting as helping to bring reconciliation — even if there is still a lot of work to be done fighting ...

Lourdes, France — Pope Leo XIV met seven French victims of clerical sexual abuse on Sunday, making a gesture of solidarity and reconciliation at a shrine world-famous for its healing waters. The ...

Pope Leo XIV waved at believers on his way to mass on Sunday in the French pilgrimage town of Lourdes where he is to meet victims of clerical sex abuse on a third day of an official visit to France.

Pope Leo has called on French bishops to root out the “scourge” of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic church, telling them to “maintain the greatest vigilance”, ahead of a meeting with abuse survivors ...

The Catholic Church has paid an enormous price for decades of delayed reporting, internal handling of criminal allegations, lack of transparency, and excessive concern for institutional reputation.