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Pope Leo urges healing of ‘deep wounds’ before meeting child sexual abuse survivors in France
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Pope Leo XIV yesterday urged the Catholic Church to admit its own failings and heal “deep wounds” inflicted within its ranks, hours before he was set to meet victims of child abuse by priests in France. Leo, addressing crowds stretching out over a large field near the famed Catholic shrine in Lourde
Pope Leo called on the Catholic Church to have the courage to face its past before he met with victims of child abuse by priests in France.