Pope Leo urges healing of ‘deep wounds’ before meeting child sexual abuse survivors in France
Pontiff also uses visit to Catholic shrine at Lourdes to criticise assisted dying as ‘false compassion’The pope has called on the Catholic church to heal “deep wounds” and “painful errors”, before a meeting survivors of child sexual abuse as he continues his four-day visit to France.Addressing a crowd in a large field near the Catholic shrine of Lourdes on Sunday, Pope Leo XIV called on the church to reckon with its past, without directly referencing sexual abuse scandals in France that affected…
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A university in Punjab has suspended classes after protests over a rumored sexual assault took a violent turn. Separately, the Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognizance of recent rape cases in Delhi. DW has more.
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