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Pope Leo meets French abuse victims in Lourdes
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Commune in Occitania, France
Lourdes is a market town situated in the Pyrenees. It is part of the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France. Prior to the mid-19th century, the town was best known for its Château fort, a fortified castle that rises up from a rocky escarpment at its center.
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Pope Leo XIV meets in Lourdes, France, with seven victims of clerical sexual abuse, and expresses his closeness to those who suffer the “wound of ...
The Pope ‘expressed his solidarity with them and, through them, with all those who have suffered and continue to suffer from the wounds of abuse,’ the Vatican said.
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