LIMA - Pope Leo XIV met six victims of clerical abuse in Peru on Thursday, including some linked to the once-powerful and now-disbanded Catholic society, Sodalitium Christianae Vitae.The U.S.-born pope, who also holds Peruvian citizenship, is on a nostalgic return to the nation he calls his “homeland,” and knows the abuse scandal well from the nearly two decades he worked in Peru as a missionary and bishop.Leo spent over an hour with the victims, meeting “each person individually, listening to their stories of suffering and their pain,” and “thanked them for their invaluable testimony,” the Vatican said.
Pope meets abuse victims in Peru, says Church must make ‘amends’
The U.S.-born pope, who also holds Peruvian citizenship, is visiting Peru, where he worked as a missionary and bishop for nearly two decades.
In brief
LIMA - Pope Leo XIV met six victims of clerical abuse in Peru on Thursday, including some linked to the once-powerful and now-disbanded Catholic society, Sodalitium Christianae Vitae.The U.S.-born pope, who also holds Peruvian citizenship, is on a nostalgic return to the nation he calls his “homeland,” and knows the abuse scandal well from the nearly two decades he worked in Peru as a missionary and bishop.Leo spent over an hour with the victims, meeting “each person individually, listening to their stories of suffering and their pain,” and “thanked them for their invaluable testimony,” the Vatican said.
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