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Jean-Marie Delbos, 80, went to Mass on Sunday for the first time in 60 years. By Monday morning in Metz, the pope was telling France’s religious leaders that violence in God’s name profanes it.
French survivors of clergy sexual abuse who met with Pope Leo XIV in Lourdes said they were struck by the pontiff's deep personal empathy and his frank acknowledgment of the institutional failures that allowed the crisis to fester within the Church.
Pope Leo had identified AI as one of the biggest challenges to humanity within days of his election and took the unusual step of personally launching his own encyclical alongside one of Anthropic’s co-founders at a Vatican event in May.