Pope Leo XIV presses French Church on abuse at Lourdes

Pope Leo XIV told estimated 150,000 people at an open-air Mass near Lourdes on Sept. 27 that healing clerical abuse — misconduct by priests and officials — requires facing 'deep wounds, infidelities and painful errors.' The appeal anchors his four-day France visit, the first papal trip there in 18 years, after at least 330,000 children were affected over seven decades.