Pope pledges action on clergy child abuse in meeting with French survivors

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O que o Papa Leão advertiu sobre a IA – e por que isso é significativo.

The leader of the world’s 1. 4 billion Catholics is on a four-day visit to France.

No domingo, o pontífice visitou a cidade de peregrinação de Lourdes, onde ele se encontrou em privado com sete sobreviventes de abuso infantil, agora adultos, e prometeu intensificar os esforços para reformar a Igreja na sequência do escândalo global de abuso sexual.

The group said in a later news conference that the meeting was emotional and touching.

The 80-year-old was abused as a pupil at the nearby boarding school of Notre-Dame de Betharram, where staff have been accused of physical and sexual abuse over several decades.

The survivors said they felt heard and that they were impressed by Leo’s compassion and knowledge of their individual cases.

Mas eles esperavam que as palavras fossem acompanhadas de ação.

Jerome Guillement, who has written about a priest abusing him as a teenager, said at the news conference that the pope understood the “systemic” nature of sexual abuse in the Church.

Líderes locais esperavam que a visita de Leo ajudasse a reparar a reputação da Igreja após uma investigação independente de 2021 descobrir que cerca de 330. 000 crianças francesas foram abusadas por membros do clero católico e líderes leigos ao longo de sete décadas.

The pope told an estimated 150,000 people gathered for a Mass in a field near the famed Catholic shrine in Lourdes earlier on Sunday that the Church must have the courage to face its past.

Veronique Garnier, another survivor who met with the pontiff, said she had found the Mass, in which Leo referred to abuse without directly apologising for it, troubling and wondered why she had attended.

But she said she was encouraged by her meeting with Leo.

Leo também falou sobre os escândalos de abuso em uma reunião fechada com bispos franceses no domingo, de acordo com um texto fornecido pelo Vaticano.

He was expected to visit the northeastern city of Metz on Monday before returning to Rome the same day.

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