Leo XIV meets five survivors of clergy abuse in Buenos Aires

Leo XIV met this afternoon in Buenos Aires five survivors of abuse by members of the clergy and Church institutions in Argentina. The Holy See Press Office reported it, as carried by Vatican News in Spanish.

The meeting took place at the Apostolic Nunciature, before the Pope went to the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) for the gathering with the world of work and social movements. The five people were presented by the local Church.

Over an hour, one by one. The Pope spoke individually with each of them, listening to their stories and to proposals for consolidating paths of healing in the Church. At the end he blessed them and thanked them for the meeting and for their witness of faith. To them — and through them to other survivors he could not meet — he expressed closeness and the will to strengthen paths of protection, welcome and accompaniment in the Church. The meeting lasted more than an hour.

The account carried by Vatican News includes no direct quotations from the Pope or the spokesman. At the time of writing no separate Bulletin item beyond the Press Office summary had been issued.

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Sources: Holy See Press Office via Vatican News ES.