Pope Leo urges healing of ‘deep wounds’ before meeting child sexual abuse survivors in France

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Catholic church must reckon with its ‘painful errors’, pontiff tells crowd in Lourdes during four-day tour The pope has called on the Catholic church to heal “deep wounds” and “painful errors”, before a meeting with survivors of child sexual abuse as…

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  • Reported by The Guardian and published Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:20:21 UTC.

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